As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.

  • ram@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Uh, I’d rather good faith discussion instead, actually.

    Just noticed you’re using kbin.social. Checks out.

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      1 year ago

      Does kbin.social have some kind of reputation or something? I’m not defending the commenter BTW.

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        1 year ago

        I just notice time and time again that kbin.social is populated by users who act in bad faith. I assume it has something to do with people repulsed by communists tending to stay away from lemmy instances due to the M-L association. Of course, kbin.social is the biggest instance of its software, but it’s a trend I keep noticing.

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        Nothing inherently, it’s an open instance with almost no rules regarding discourse though so you will find a lot of trolls and bad faith comments coming from kbin.

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        1 year ago

        Ad hominem only applies when using an attack on a person as an argument. This person’s clearly not behaving in good faith, so why are they entitled to a good faith reply?