Screenshot was taken at night
I can’t be the only one who wishes these screenshots were mostly in dark mode. How am I supposed to browse this sub at night while laying in bed when I should be sleeping?
Agreed, ableism.
“Class Bully” would have been a better choice, since this is clearly fiction anyway. School classrooms don’t have fabric softener. So they’d have to bring it, with malicious intent, ergo bully. And probably smart enough to hide it from the teacher.
Afaik, “bullyism,” if it even exists, is laudable.
ableism?
There was a conversation awhile back about how any term used to describe someone with a disability eventually becomes a slur and history tends to back that up, but I’d say ‘special needs’ is probably about the least offensive qualifier we have today.
For 4chan, that’s like a miracle.
I did theatre in high school (a decade ago) and we performed the straight play The Boys Next Door, a story about four intellectually disabled men living together with the help of their caretaker. The original show was written circa 1988, and uses “retarded” as the word to describe the men. Obviously for a high school play, we couldn’t use that.
Our director interfaced with a local group to determine what the correct terminology should be, and over the course of rehearsal, we changed the phrase from mentally challenged to intellectually challenged to intellectually disabled. It was important to us to make sure we got it right, but it was also surprising that the term changed very quickly.
Not sure what the politically correct term is nowadays, I try and avoid the R slur. Point is, this is a dumb greentext among the many I have saved; I Guess I could have picked a different one.
One can make the conscious adult decision to not propagate greatest that are abliest and, frankly speaking, not even funny.
This is a place to share actually entertaining content, not whatever this bottom of the barrel attempt at humor is…
I think we all grew up with one or two non-verbal, watched at all times, screaming in the halls kid in our school. What the fuck would you want to call a kid like that? They don’t know or care what you call them. That’s what comes to mind for me when special needs is mentioned. Not autistic, or ADHD. Full blown mental retardation.
