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The most annoying thing about being famous is having to tell everyone how famous you are.

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  • I used to like it a lot… As a kid… As I’ve grown it seems more focused on being incredibly in the middle than ever actually making any sort of point…

    Matt Stone and Trey Parker are just so incredibly "Enlightened Centrist* that it can be painful at times.

    They have some good bits and some of their jokes have rightfully stood the test of time… But God damn… If you’re going to make a political show… Do something other than the most fence sitting thing possible!





























  • Intent doesn’t really matter if the entire butt of the joke is that this person is asking like a “lesser” group.

    Even if intent did matter… How would a passive observer be able to tell if the person meant it or not? You really can’t without knowing both parties involved, their history together, and if that person regularly does similar styles of joke.

    It’s easier to just pick a different word to insult someone’s intelligence instead of one that’s designed to hurt a specific group of people.


  • The main issue that seems to be the disconnect is simply that you are using the word as an insult.

    Calling someone unintelligent is fine (I feel at least) but specifically using words that are associated with disabled people as an insult towards abled people is blatantly putting one group on top of the other.

    The insult in that case cuts both ways. The person you are directly talking to is insulted because they are acting like a “lower group” and you’re also insulting the entire group by saying they are inherently lesser.

    You can not use a group of people as an insult without inherently viewing that group as insult worthy.