> Literally what the r-word controversy is about. Glad you finally get it.
Huh, are you confusing me with someone here? I argued precisely that in this very thread. As someone who grew up knowing people whose relatives were disabled I think of the r-word (and the German equivalent, English is not my first language) as horrible.
Most people who use it are ignorant to what it means to people who have to live with it every day. Which means it is even worse if one thinks about it and goes like "yeah I understand why they hate it, but I am still gonna use it", because then they are not ignorant but malicious.
How is it okay to you to use "immature" and not the r-word?
Both could refer to a category of person based on something they can't change about them selves, and both are in most cases not used to refer to said category.
> As someone who grew up knowing people whose relatives were disabled I think of the r-word (and the German equivalent, English is not my first language) as horrible.
You think children like being called immature?
> Most people who use it are ignorant to what it means to people who have to live with it every day.
Most people who call other people immature also has long since forgotten the anxiety and troubles that come with being an immature human being.
> "yeah I understand why they hate it, but I am still gonna use it", because then they are not ignorant but malicious.
As long as you feel the same about calling people immature, idiots, or anything else that could also be misinterpreted to refer to category of person based on something they can't change about them selves.
Huh, are you confusing me with someone here? I argued precisely that in this very thread. As someone who grew up knowing people whose relatives were disabled I think of the r-word (and the German equivalent, English is not my first language) as horrible.
Most people who use it are ignorant to what it means to people who have to live with it every day. Which means it is even worse if one thinks about it and goes like "yeah I understand why they hate it, but I am still gonna use it", because then they are not ignorant but malicious.