I suggest using the power of your free speech to walk up in person too anyone of color and using any of those words to their face and see how your "free speech" goes.
Furthermore, a little reasearch on what "free speech" means and doesn't mean might be in order.
What I find interesting is that so many people seem to want to stand up on the side of bigotry and demand their "right" to be a bigot and use bigoted language. I'm not sure that's really a great look.
Perhaps you misunderstand, so let's go back to the basics.
Lemmy.World TOS prohibits the use of, among other things, ableist slurs.
If you use such slurs, expect to face consequences.
I am a Lemmy admin, and part of what I do is enforce the TOS when I see violations.
We may choose to simply remove rule-breaking comments, or hand out temp-bans or perma-bans to those that can't seem to follow the rules.
If you cannot follow the rules, I suppose you will eventually find out the consequences for yourself.
So ultimately, I don't care if you agree with the TOS or not. Only whether you follow them.
I don't understand why so many people here are standing up on the side of bigotry. I really don't. It makes me sad.
If it takes me to make you empathetic towards the victims of those ableist slurs...... I don't know what to tell ya. I don't think it's a good look, though.
That's the idiotic take you chose to run with? Fuck fascism.
But fuck ableist slurs. You shouldn't attack fascism using slurs that harm real people. And even if you disagree, ableist slurs are against the rules.
It's like getting pulled over for speeding on your way to a protest and accuding the cop of supporting fascism (which might be a fair comparison in that case, sure, I realise this isn't a perfect analogy).
Call Patel any number of delightful terms that point out his fascism, inhumanity, stupidity, idiocy - whatever you'd like. But don't be ableist, transphobic, homophobix, racist, misogynist et cetera when you do so.
Is it that difficult?
So? Is ableism by someone on the spectrum supposed to be acceptable? Do I need to find a person who is black to give me permission to use the N word? Maybe I should find a woman to give me permission to be misogynist?
Do you watch police brutality and think, "THIN BLUE LINE! HUAH!!!!"? Let's discuss other stupid things. Or maybe you might stop standing up for bigotry.
Every so often, I browse the media posted to the instance to look for spam. And sometimes that leads me to threads I'd otherwise miss - I had to see what this image was about in context! lol
Rosie ROCKS. <3 <3 <3
Technically, one of the things that makes it worse - some of the folks I used to work with still had MR as their official medical diagnosis - less than a decade ago, and since most of them were young enough to probably be still alive, they still have it.