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Let's all mock the disabled

  • 04-12-2016 06:44PM
    #1
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭


    Mong, mongoloid, spanner, spaz, spastic, window licker, retard.

    Why is it, that in this day and age, the above words are seen as acceptable to use as put downs towards others?

    What makes it worse is that it appears to be perfectly allowable on Boards.ie without any sort of deterrent.

    I thought people had moved on but it appears not.


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  • #2
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    petrolcan wrote: »
    Mong, mongoloid, spanner, spaz, spastic, window licker, retard.

    Why is it, that in this day and age, the above words are seen as acceptable to use as put downs towards others?

    What makes it worse is that it appears to be perfectly allowable on Boards.ie without any sort of deterrent.

    I thought people had moved on but it appears not.

    The words above when used as a put down are rarely meant literally or seriously.

    Chill out.


  • #3
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Allowable?

    Im not down with that.


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Ride me sideways was another one


  • #5
    Stoolbend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Stoolbend


    I'm disabled.


  • #6
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Ride me sideways was another one

    Thought that was to do with Chinese woman. ??


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  • #7
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    I see you're point with some of those (although I think context is key) but what's wrong with spanner?


  • #8
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Burial. wrote: »
    The words above when used as a put down are rarely meant literally or seriously.

    That doesn't make it in any way right and actually sounds like a cop out.


  • #9
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Spanner?

    Spanner = tool.

    Spanner.


  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Who said such words were acceptable? Of course they're not.

    I have to say I have never heard most of them at all and the few I've heard have not been directed at disabled people.

    If you have encountered it on Boards then report the posters concerned.


  • #11
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,885 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Stoolbend wrote: »
    I'm disabled.

    Best look out for bearded gingers so.


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  • #12
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    petrolcan wrote: »
    Mong, mongoloid, spanner, spaz, spastic, window licker, retard.

    Why is it, that in this day and age, the above words are seen as acceptable to use as put downs towards others?

    Who says they are acceptable?

    You left out Spa/Spaz which was (along with retard) probably one of the worst.

    But you don't hear them nowadays, do you?


  • #13
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    For some reason, the word retard really annoys me more than any of the others.

    As for use on boards, stick retard into the search bar and you will see how common it is.


  • #14
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    Stoolbend wrote: »
    I'm disabled.

    "What kind of disabled?"


    "... leg... disabled."


  • #15
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,456 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Of all of those words the only one I still hear is retard and even then never towards someone who is actually disabled


  • #16
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Spud.


    That's another one.


  • #17
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Spud.


    That's another one.

    Potato face


  • #18
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Windowlicker

    https://youtu.be/7MBaEEODzU0


  • #19
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    OP it's the same thing as if I called you a bastard, I can't 100% know whether you're parents were married when you were born or not.

    Calling you a pussy, I'm not saying you are literally a vagina.

    It's just words man. Sticks and stones and all that.


  • #20
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,641 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Do you mean these words are used about what would be perceived as non-disabled people? In that case, its just an insult. I have heard it the odd time between close friends, taking the piss out of each other.

    But I would doubt you'd ever hear someone calling a wheelchair bound person a spaz, if they do, then they are just arseholes who need a slap.


  • #21
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    hairyslug wrote: »
    For some reason, the word retard really annoys me more than any of the others.

    As for use on boards, stick retard into the search bar and you will see how common it is.
    Would "cretin" or "moron" or "imbecile" annoy you as much? Why not? They're all words once used in medicine to describe different conditions affecting the brain, just like "retard", though retard/retarded has far more meanings beyond mental disability. It seems some words are singled out for ire's sake.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #22
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Atari Jaguer wrote: »
    OP it's the same thing as if I called you a bastard, I can't 100% know whether you're parents were married when you were born or not.

    Calling you a pussy, I'm not saying you are literally a vagina.

    It's just words man. Sticks and stones and all that.

    So then all the words in (post 1) are fair game from Spa/Spaz, Retard, Chink, Mong . . .
    they're all ok in your estimation :confused:

    Are you serious?


  • #23
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,705 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Stoolbend wrote: »
    I'm disabled.

    Can I take you shopping with me?


  • #24
    SkinnyBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭SkinnyBuddha


    petrolcan wrote: »
    Mong, mongoloid, spanner, spaz, spastic, window licker, retard.

    Why is it, that in this day and age, the above words are seen as acceptable to use as put downs towards others?

    What makes it worse is that it appears to be perfectly allowable on Boards.ie without any sort of deterrent.

    I thought people had moved on but it appears not.

    ah your a delicate petal aren't ye .

    I don't suppose you reported those 2 posts you got offended over in the boy racer thread?


  • #25
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Kora Attractive Square wrote: »
    Who said such words were acceptable? Of course they're not.

    I have to say I have never heard most of them at all and the few I've heard have not been directed at disabled people.

    If you have encountered it on Boards then report the posters concerned.

    It just feels that sometimes the words are used without any thought about what they actually represent. Just banter.

    It's not just on Boards, it just seems to be everywhere and seems to be overlooked.

    I'm pretty sure that I've reported posts before but it might have been on other fora, I misremember.


  • #26
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    LordSutch wrote: »
    So then all the words in (post 1) are fair game from Spa/Spaz, Retard, Chink, Mong . . .
    they're all ok in your estimation :confused:

    Are you serious?

    I would have no issue with retard, mong, Mongol, spanner etc. Spastic is not a word I would use and being Chinese is not really a disability as far as I know.


  • #27
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    FortySeven wrote: »
    I would have no issue with retard], mong, Mongol, spanner etc. Spastic is not a word I would use and being Chinese is not really a disability as far as I know.

    I couldn't imagine in my wildest dreams of using any of those words nowadays for fear of being taken to court. Yeah sure back in the 70s you could say anything to anybody, but surely not nowadays :(


  • #28
    SkinnyBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭SkinnyBuddha


    OP better not apply for job here either:pac:

    https://www.mongodb.com/office-locations


  • #29
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    LordSutch wrote: »
    So then all the words in (post 1) are fair game from Spa/Spaz, Retard, Chink, Mong . . .
    they're all ok in your estimation :confused:

    Are you serious?

    They are for me, wouldn't call anyone with a mental disability, or whatever the PC term is, a retard, I'd call my friends that when they're stupid. Same goes for moron, mong, spa, spaz and a few other terms.

    I don't have anyone in my life I'm close enough to to call a n***er or a chink but if I did I'm sure I wouldn't hold back, just words.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I saw the thread title and came in here with every intention to slate handicapped people but it seems you weren't being sincere OP, weren't sincere at all. F*ck sake.


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  • #31
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    FortySeven wrote: »
    I would have no issue with retard, mong, Mongol, spanner etc. Spastic is not a word I would use and being Chinese is not really a disability as far as I know.

    Made me laugh :pac:

    Chink is as offensive to Chinese people as n***er is to coloured people as far as I've been told, doesn't really fit into an argument about insults regarding disabilities.


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