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I hate how common it is to use 'low IQ' as an insult(self)

36 points35 points38 points submitted by Bunnygirl

I hate how normalised it is to use 'low IQ' as an insult. As someone with below average intelligence I find it very offensive and annoying to see so many people (even some progressives) using it as an insult. Why in this age of tolerance and anti-ableism is it so common?

It would socially unacceptable for me to say something is a "black take" or a "wheelchair take" so why is it so common to do it with mentally challenged people? When ever I hear it IRL it feels so isolating. I have have friends who always called eachother "R*traded", "low IQ" and "espeds" and it hurts because I am those things but I'm too embarrassed to call them out because I don't want them to find out so now I have to keep it secret. You don't choose your IQ it's a unchangeable and uncontrollable thing about you so I hate when people just use it like it means being poor or just smelling bad.

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RedditButt 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

You can say retarded here.

TheBlackSun 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Not true guys. Don’t listen to her. You’ll get banned for saying the R word.

Mcheetah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 22 days ago

"Don’t listen to her!"

She said "R*traded," though. Like, when a sports team gets traded to Reno, Nevada, Rochester, New York, or Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Did you hear what happened to the Oakland A's? They got R*traded. ...For being retards."

(Sorry for the late response; I've been on vacation.)

Zapped 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

"This is a low-IQ post" - u/fschmidt, probably

fschmidt 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun 1 month ago

My dog is low-IQ, and I like her. IQ is just one factor of many in determining the value of a person. The problem with modern scum is that they are bad in all factors.

IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Sometimes it is not an insult, just an observation. 50% of the population are below average intelligence.

iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun 1 month ago

Or you could realize IQ is a fake metric and people do say things like "colored people time" to talk about being chronically tardy IRL and it's okay

Oyveygoyim 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun 1 month ago

😂 of course a nigger lover like you would say something like that

Bunnygirl[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

"Or you could realize IQ is a fake metric"

Sorry to say this but that is total bullshit and a very privileged thing to say.

ID10T 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Lol you can't police speech here with words like "privilege". We all know that's a retarded way to think. Life isn't fair. Suck it up buttercup. Fat lazy stupid ugly - anything that's a negative characteristic will be used as an insult. You don't like it, it's on you to toughen up. Stop crying.

Bunnygirl[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Life is hard for everyone but harder and easier for others. Life can be hard for someone born into a rich family but are seriously about to suggest that he's life is just as hard as someone who was born into poverty?

"Life isn't fair. Suck it up buttercup. Fat lazy stupid ugly - anything that's a negative characteristic will be used as an insult. You don't like it, it's on you to toughen up. Stop crying."

Bro, why are you mad I just beat you up with a baseball bat? Don't like it? Just toughen up

ID10T 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Words aren't violence. When I was a child, my parents used to say to me "repeat after me, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." It's a good lesson and prepared me for real life.

blackvoodoowhitesnow 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

you just dont understand the joke.

Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Jews say are you American rather than IQ.

Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Retard.

Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Faggot.

Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Nigger.

Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Take one of the three as your worst and go cry me a river, dumb niggerfaggot

Bunnygirl[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun 1 month ago

Thank you 😊🙏

Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Get used to it