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By @letstalkpalestine2 on Instagram.

People fail to understand the degree of insane bloodthirst and dehumanization taught to 'israelis' like the one in front of this image. She genuinely sees the woman in the back as vermin and finds fun in tormenting her. This is a core tenet of their culture. They will humiliate Palestinians in whichever way they can on any given day ranging from petty to lethal. Their textbooks have caricatures. They draw unibrows on themselves and dream about Disneyland in Gaza on TikTok. They make fun of dead babies by comparing them to food.

The reason I flagged it framing it as a loss is that what matters to most companies is money. If you can flag a bigoted practice as something that will lose customers, clients, or get them a lawsuit, that is significantly more likely to get taken care of quickly than trying to appeal to their better nature. I could have flagged it as "Hey, this is going to make our client really upset if they hear it.", which was my actual motivation for flagging it, but if I had, then it probably would have been taken care of in a few days or even weeks, not hours.

Yes, it's an ableist slur.

Terms like "asshat," "head-up-ass," "up their own ass," and "high on their own farts" exist. There's also words like crap, dogshit, half-assed, assclown, and chucklefuck. And on the less vulgar side, there are terms like ridiculous, nonsense, train wreck, pointless, insipid, self-absorbed, pretentious, annoying, boring, contemptible, vile, and disgusting.

It's "retard" and the variant "retarded".

There's no point in using the slur on anyone but myself because it relieves the other person of the social pressure of confronting the victim of the slur being used. If I'm right here, in their face, showing them that I'm real, I'm a person just like them, I'm living and breathing and feeling and yet my life is made harder every day not because the world can't accommodate me, but it won't, and I use that word retard, they will (hopefully) hate it. I want them hear it and not want to hear it, to feel just a fraction of the pain and anger it causes me to hear it thrown casually about for this that and the other thing.

I know others will have different reasons for reclaiming the word but for me it's pretty clear that I would not be liberating anyone by using it for them. It's still very much an ugly, cruel, hateful word when coming out of my own mouth, and that's the point. No one wants to look me in the face and say I deserve that word, but they would rather pretend it's never applied to me than confront that I am who is being denigrated when people throw the word around thoughtlessly.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

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ALL EYES ON RAFAH. WE WILL NOT FORGIVE. WE WILL NOT FORGET.