Rep. Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, defeated Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, for the Republican nomination to be House speaker and replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Rep. Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, defeated Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, for the Republican nomination to be House speaker and replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Maybe? But I wasn’t really asking if one person considers it a slur regardless. Generally there’s a rough consensus within a community about whether a term is offensive to them or not, and a well meaning person might not know. “Midget” was a term used broadly before that community generally said we should use “little person” instead. There are loads and loads of similar examples. Black folks have dealt with a series of terms, some of which were not initially used with malice but became a slur over time.
I guess it’s reasonable that this one would be offensive to people, but I honestly didn’t see it. I’m a senior manager and I try too be very sensitive to those issues (not that I’d use “fucktard” at work even if it wasn’t considered ableist).
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Look, I’ve been on online communities for thirty years. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen someone say something was good or bad and they turned out to be full of crap. Some things are easy to confirm or disprove, and I usually take the time to do that, but this isn’t one of those things. So yes, I was asking for some kind of confirmation. Does that mean I don’t respect people with disabilities? No. I’m not defending anything, and I’m fact I don’t think I’ve ever personally used that term myself. Breaded on the number of people downvoting in this thread (my only downvote was when you disparaged me personally), a number of other people had the same reaction.
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