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Would it be better taste to use "drunk" or "high" as insults instead of terms relating to disabilities? (sh.itjust.works)
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Like, you choose to be drunk or high. No one chooses to be disabled and it's horrible that a whole demographic is treated as a joke.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I like to use "muppet", since it's less attached to disabilities. (Some able-minded people act irrationally and they do need to be called out on that, sometimes with insults, otherwise they'll keep doing it and keep being a dead weight and a burden to the others.)

I'm not a big fan of "drunk" or "high". It doesn't deliver the point well, I think.