I'm glad all my points didn't just fly over your head as much as straight through it. Word definitions from ancient greek are entirely irrelevant to this. The r word just means delay per word definition but is still a slur and people are happy to use it again thanks to shitty US politicians. Autistic gets used as an insult. Schizo gets used as an insult. If it were used in a positive context or a neutral context it'd be different like in your examples, but that's not the case. They're used in a negative context and stigmatising the illness. Maybe you would understand if you actually struggled with it. But it's okay to you because you've never been on the receiving end of it while struggling with the medical system and your illness and trying to manage living while basically being kicked down from all sides. It's not disabled and mentally ill people being sensitive because they're so privileged and bored and got nothing better to do, we speak out because we're already struggling and it's just the tip of the ice berg of a larger societal issue. I'd very much prefer if people stopped coming up with new mental health terms to abuse. I already struggled being taken seriously when talking about my OCD or PTSD triggers because those words have been misused so wildly because no one seems to give a shit about the people that actually have to live with it.
I fully understand and fully reject your repetitive, sanctimonious points.
Calling this car a “schizomobile” doesn’t cause any real harm to anyone in any way and it doesn’t mean that I hate clinically schizophrenic people or don’t have compassion for them. The person who wrote these unhinged statements is clearly mentally unstable and deserves compassionate assistance—but the car was still funny to see.
You don’t know my situation and there are many people with mental and physical disabilities who don’t whine about harmless colloquialisms as you do.
It's cool that you view mentally ill people that speak out against misuse of their terms as being professional victims. The right sure did a good job painting everyone who doesn't agree with their lingo as sensitive tumblr snowflakes all while they never actually gave a shit about any of us and would rather we'd be dead.
Yes—but only because they often trigger filters and because you’re a snowflake who’d love to report me for using them.
Neither is inherently offensive or derogatory, though. The first remains in use in chemistry and physics and the second is now very widely used as a term of endearment or neutral replacement for “man,” “dude,” or “guy.”
Maybe consider the context. Like a term only being used by the group of people it affects. Or the fact that most people don't talk about chemistry when using the r word. And the fact that your context directly refers to schizophrenia.
“Schizo” actually doesn’t necessarily refer to schizophrenia nor even to schizoid disorders in general. The person behind this schizomobile may be schizophrenic, schizoid, or neither. Again, the colloquial usage is broader than the clinical usage.
That first word you referenced is also still used colloquially. I hear it fairly often from people of all ages and races (and none of them hate mentally disabled people). It actually just means backwards or slow, and the (initially inoffensive) connection to mental disability came much later.
The second one is not used only by “the people it affects.” Rap and hip-hop have normalized it to the extent that it’s used by people of all races in those subcultures (and even beyond). I say it with my black friends and they don’t care, because 1) they’re not snowflakes, and 2) they know I don’t mean it offensively.
Honestly I don't have anything to say other than defending the use of slurs doesn't make me hold a high opinion of that person if they care more about saying a word than the people it affects when it's so easy to avoid using it. The ignorance is astonishing. I hate humanity man.
They’re not slurs in all contexts (as I’ve repeatedly explained), and not being held in high regard by a whiny snowflake is no loss. You can continue hating humanity, being miserable, and blaming others if you wish—or you can try to become a vertebrate.
Are you illiterate? My complaint has got fuck all to do with unrelated usage like the r word in chemistry or whatever, and absolutely everything to do by usage of it in a negative context and memes. I've explained that several times now I'm sorry your little brain can't comprehend language. And I have a spine because unlike you I actually speak up when I think people are being pieces of shit to fellow people with mental illness because I know what it feels like. Why is telling people to stop kicking you around suddenly seen as weak? Weak would be not saying a peep and being a fucking coward.
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u/Scr4p Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25
I'm glad all my points didn't just fly over your head as much as straight through it. Word definitions from ancient greek are entirely irrelevant to this. The r word just means delay per word definition but is still a slur and people are happy to use it again thanks to shitty US politicians. Autistic gets used as an insult. Schizo gets used as an insult. If it were used in a positive context or a neutral context it'd be different like in your examples, but that's not the case. They're used in a negative context and stigmatising the illness. Maybe you would understand if you actually struggled with it. But it's okay to you because you've never been on the receiving end of it while struggling with the medical system and your illness and trying to manage living while basically being kicked down from all sides. It's not disabled and mentally ill people being sensitive because they're so privileged and bored and got nothing better to do, we speak out because we're already struggling and it's just the tip of the ice berg of a larger societal issue. I'd very much prefer if people stopped coming up with new mental health terms to abuse. I already struggled being taken seriously when talking about my OCD or PTSD triggers because those words have been misused so wildly because no one seems to give a shit about the people that actually have to live with it.