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Eeesh, this feels too close to medication shaming to me - I know we all find different things effective but medication works extremely well for me and I’ve still got my moral code.
I’ll shame meds all day long because I am pissed off they force fed me them starting at age 7. I was strongly effected by the side effects to the point I truly believe it fucked my brain up a bit, but nobody seemed to care because I was quieter during class. I wasn’t given a choice in the matter. I think it’s ok to be against meds, and it’s ok to be for them. They can do amazing things but they’re not a fix all solution for everyone.
I think for some people they are good. For people like you and me not so much. I think that they permanently messed up my brain too. What are your symptoms?
You can have my meds when you pry them from my cold dead hands. It’s not ok to be against something people do of their own free will that helps them out and doesn’t hurt anyone.
Relax, it’s called comedy
People are allowed to be critical of entertainment, and that includes comedy. In fact, sometimes you should be critical of things that people brand as “comedy”.
Sometimes things are problematic, regardless of their intent as “comedy”. And that’s normal. Comedy often ages very poorly. Remember all those movies that used rape & sexual assault as a punchline? Should we not be critical of blackface because it’s supposed to be “comedy”? Should we turn off our brains because “it’s just a joke”?
You’re allowed to laugh. Others are allowed to be more critical. Both are valid.
Relax.
This isn’t one of those times
This is the joke. Absurdist hyperbole only works with a shared assumption or common sense to play against.
If there’s an intended target of this joke, it’s definitely not medication. It would be the inscrutability of the wording of that clinical guideline, which seems to imply morality is divergent but can be cured with stimulants.
unless youre talking about fire retardants, the timing of engines, or other situations where a thing is being actively retarded, dont use the r slur. Applied to people, it is a slur.
edit; y’all wanna down vote and support the usage of a slur, even when presented with reputable source evidence explaining why it is a slur. grow tf up.
He was clearly roleplaying as the crass ignorant people who might think of justice as such
I understand that. His joke could have been made without it.
You don’t call retarded people retards. You call your friends retards when they’re being retarded.
Leta just swap out that word with another slur and reiterate your statement:
“You dont call black people n word, you call white friends the n word when theyre being the n word.”
Right, remember the hundreds of years of slavery and racial oppression that developmentally disabled people endured in this country that lead to the word retarded…no?.. Me neither.
Comparing retarded to the N word is actually fucking retarded.
Relevant Louis CK bit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4etdXW--30
BTW. When the DSM-5 talks about “a strong sense of justice” this is what it talking about. It’s not the sense of right and wrong that’s diagnosing, it’s missing the obvious fact that this joke came after what was probably 10-30 minutes of the comedian assessing how many people in the room were ADHD like him, then building up context that would allow the joke to land without hurting anyone’s feelings.
Your point is retarded.
