A draft law sparks debate with locals calling it excessive and questioning how it would be enforced.

A draft law sparks debate with locals calling it excessive and questioning how it would be enforced.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    As an autistic person, I’ll say that I personally don’t have a problem with the word retard and jokingly call my self retarded.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
      3·
      1 year ago

      And that’s fine, I don’t mind people using the term about themselves really, but as someone with a very visible disability, I strongly oppose the use of it as a pejorative slur, because it’s most regularly used by people who want me to be castrated (or worse) so that I don’t reproduce and pass my “weak genes” to future generations. Perspective and all that.