• @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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      281 year ago

      Thanks for letting me know. I thought it was equivalent to “Neanderthal” but just looked it up. I won’t use it again.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        Hell yeah. If it makes you feel better your not the only one to have incorrectly thought that.

        • @positiveWHAT
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          61 year ago

          Detectives assemble! Something that could be confused as similar to Neanderthal, but isn’t. I’m guessing mongoloid?

          • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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            71 year ago

            You guessed correctly. It is not always a slur, more a description in an anachronistic method of defining human ‘races’, but is apparently a slur used against autistic people and therefore has been deleted from my mental vocabulary.

            • @[email protected]
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              I think it’s a slur against people with Down’s syndrome. It was originally used to refer to people from East Asia (mongoloid from either Mongols or Mongolia, not sure which), then later applied to people with Down’s syndrome due to similarities between some East Asian facial features and the facial features common among those living with the syndrome.

              Looks like it was most commonly used in the 50s and 60s. Not sure if it wasn’t considered offensive then or if people just didn’t care as much.

              Edit: also, props to you for using this as a chance to learn rather than getting defensive.

      • @Holyginz
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        21 year ago

        What was the word? Now I want to know so I don’t accidentally use it.