As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there’s been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it’s fine to disagree, I’m finding it suspicious that there weren’t comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

  • Skankboot@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    You know that someone can act like something without being that thing right? You can say someone is narcissistic without them being an actual narcissist.

    Like me saying that you’re stupid shouldn’t imply that you’ve had a traumatic brain injury or were born without a frontal lobe.

    • Genius@lemmy.zip
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      13 hours ago

      That’s a false equivalence. “Stupid” isn’t the same as any of the words in the diagnosis “mental retardation” (recently updated to intellectual disability). Your example would work better if you did it like this:

      Like me saying that you’re retarded shouldn’t imply that you have mental retardation.

      There, that’s a much closer analogy. Do you still stand by your point if we use a proper equivalence?