Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-28939754-20160726193929/@comment-4845243-20160728001619

Keplers wrote: Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: B, ableist slurs should not be allowed.

“So, what’s wrong with ‘retard’?,” he asked. “I can only tell you what it means to me and people like me when we hear it. It means that the rest of you are excluding us from your group. We are something that is not like you and something that none of you would ever want to be. We are something outside the ‘in’ group. We are someone that is not your kind.” - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinion/sunday/a-word-gone-wrong.html?_r=0 >obese >stupid An analogy between either of these words and the r-slur does not work. Obese isn't a slur that is demeaning to a community of marginalized individuals (e.g. the disabled community). People in the disabled community, afaik, are not saying that "stupid" is demeaning or a slur, if it ever was it has evolved past that, unlike the r-slur which is currently condemned by the disabled community.