Dude, Nazis aren’t going to be convinced to stop being a Nazi just because you also start acting like a Nazi. That’s actually one of their objectives.

I don’t use slurs that aren’t directed at groups I’m a part of. We do that to denote respect for groups that are harmed by those slurs.

What you’re referring to is the historical use of a term compared to its contemporary or colloquial meanings. “Idiot,” was indeed used in the past to refer to people with disabilities or mental illnesses, that is very much not the dominant understanding of its meaning today. “Idiot,” today has the meaning of poor intelligence or foolishness, but is not associated with conditions that people imagine result in those poor qualities.

Something like the “r” word is very much associated with mental, genetic, and learning disabilities that are, by its very use, argued to be the cause of the victim’s perceived poor intelligence. They’re calling the person that word regardless of whether they think they have any disorders because they associate those disorders with poor intelligence and also poor social value. It being an insult is dependent on the devaluing of disabled people.

“Idiot,” or “stupid,” do not carry those connotations in culture, they’re only insults referring to the intelligence of the individual(s) they are directed at.

With all that being said, it’s often seen as low-class or immature to resort to these insults at all. You should never use the “r” word as it is a slur directed at an extremely vulnerable group of people and its use reinforces their devalued status.

People surprised by this haven’t been paying attention.

No I’m not trying to say that you’re wrong, I’m just asserting that there isn’t doubt as to whether this is ableism. I don’t want that to discourage you from pointing out bigotry when you see it.

Yeah this is very apparent all over social media. It’s the consequence of liberals who think disagreeing with the overt fascism seen in MAGA allows moral purity in their actions. They don’t actually interrogate internalized values they hold from capitalism and settler-colonialism that devalues groups of people, they just know which groups are more or less “wrong” to target. They feel emboldened by a visible and decisive enemy, which makes them less self-conscious about the bigotry they foster uncritically.

It’s not too close, this is ableism.

That’s ableism. These people don’t look the way they do and don’t act they way they do because of any genetic disorder. They also aren’t going to fucking see this so the only people being insulted by this are people who are disabled, great job.

We’re talking about actual fascists here and you guys are insulting with eugenics and appearance ffs.

Eugenics, nice. Total own dude you really got me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_syndrome

The joke is very obviously referencing Down Syndrome, with the joke you mentioned in another comment being some sort of subversion of expectations by having the gene duplication mistaken, except there are diseases with gene absence as the root cause.

Punching down at disabled people is some chud shit.

Ableism. What a funny joke dude. Could you explain what specifically they’re referring to about missing chromosomes that would make someone a fascist?

Or, at the very least, open up his heart.

Uh, no I don’t hope he incites even more racist violence when violence against racialized minorities is on the rise. That isn’t a cool, antifascist take you seem to think it is. He’s already irredeemably awful and frustrating to chuds, we don’t need random people to pay even more with their lives and bodies just to make him look even worse before he gets got.

Guy’s a chud. Another post from this Instagram profile: “RIP Charlie you were the best of us.” This post is also explicitly calling for policy inspired by Donald Trump’s isolationist looting scheme. The account was made the day after Kirk got proven wrong and then posts this.

Pretty clear picture to me.

Yes. This is terrifying to fascists because most of them don’t think enough to consider how ideological purity would manifest in a rabidly genocidal ideology and the wealthier ones think they can insulate themselves from the violence. Charlie getting easily killed publicly by one of their own is the exact thing they thought they were safe from.

PP is a neolib who played with nazism for fun and genuinely thought there couldn’t be consequences for it.

Awesome for you and your cohort, sounds privileged. That was twenty years ago and still sounds exceptional. I’ve been to multiple universities and colleges along with family members, even programs that require a workstation pc do not provide them for you. Im working on updating one right now and at a “better” uni you have to apply for a fund through your student association. Best you normally get is rentable laptops from the library.

Hopefully he’ll stop by a uni

I’ve never seen a post-secondary school that provides computer hardware.

Ironically redditor-like comment. Wasn’t trying to bring “drama” just pointing out how differently right-wing sites treat these events.

A redditor got pissed at me yesterday for saying the Toronto Police infamously protect nazis.