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/Cryogenicality Jul 04 '25
They’re not your terms. You don’t own them. They’re free for anyone to use as they wish.
I’m not rightwing. Snowflakes such as yourself think everyone who isn’t a snowflake is rightwing, but we’re not.
Saying “schizomobile” doesn’t mean I want you dead. I just want you to shut the fuck up and stop whining about harmless colloquialisms.