111000@reddthat.com to New Communities@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agoIdiots of Facebook Marketplacemessage-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squarecalypsopub@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·11 months ago“Idiot” has not been a medical term for decades. It no longer refers to a particular diagnosis. Nobody who is not an idiot thinks “idiot” in its current incarnation is ableist. See also: imbecile, cretin, crazy, bonkers, etc.
minus-squareMicroplasticbrain@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoDoesn’t idiot come from an old term for common person or something like that.
minus-squarewitchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoNot my problem.
“Idiot” has not been a medical term for decades. It no longer refers to a particular diagnosis. Nobody who is not an idiot thinks “idiot” in its current incarnation is ableist. See also: imbecile, cretin, crazy, bonkers, etc.
Doesn’t idiot come from an old term for common person or something like that.
Not my problem.