Mong is used to describe someone who is stupid...nothing to do with downs syndrome....fcuking snowflake. If you think it refers to anything else its more a reflection on who you are..nothing else
Why do you think there's an association or equivalence to stupidity. Do you think maybe because of its roots in the term *****loid?
Snowflake…Brilliant reposte. You’re simply wrong I’m afraid and unless you have Down’s it isn’t up to you to decide whether it is an offensive term or not. Just because you don’t use it to deliberately cause offence to people with Down’s doesn’t mean that others don’t and for the person hearing it in casual conversation they don’t get the chance to sit and have a rational discussion with you about what you mean…you’d simply sound like a bully. I maybe am, as you say, a snowflake though so…
Are you using snowflake as a pejorative term? I’d be proud to be called it, as it would usually be someone right leaning, conservative and closed minded calling me it to mark me as distinct from them.
It’s literally rooted in the view that people with Down’s look like people from the *****l race, and in the 1800’s there was a view, from Down himself that there must be a genetic link (you could argue, not that I am, that to still use it is racist as well) However in the 1950’s that was should to be incorrect when the actual gene was discovered. It is still used by bullies to harass people with Down’s and it’s not a term I think you should be used as a ‘joke’ or as a dig about someone’s lack of intellect
It's always funny that the term 'snowflake' is usually used to denote someone who melts easily, and yet it's always those quickest to anger who throw it around.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kevin-kilbane-lodges-complaint-fa-5218766 educate yourself - its offensive and has everything to do with Downs Syndrome - ''At that time, people who have Down’s syndrome were generally referred to as ‘*****ls’; they were considered to be educationally sub-normal. Many people who have Down’s syndrome lived in institutional settings such as long-stay mental hospitals.'' 'I was naive': Finally Ricky Gervais apologises for 'mong' comments after mother of two disabled daughters is reduced to tear
There was a big survey done for Ofcom in 2016, which they used to gauge public opinion of the use of language on TV, it was broken down into general swear words, racial language, sexual and gender references, offensive gestures, older people, religious insults and disability/mental health references. The four disability references overwhelmingly objected to, were Mong, ******, Spaz and Window Licker. It's quite interesting, if anyone's interested... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/91624/OfcomOffensiveLanguage.pdf
All the CSM stuff came from when we were having it a bit with the Sunderland board what 6-7 ? Years ago didnt it I’d never heard it before then And we tossed it around a lot on here Times moved on as den said I don’t think there was any harm intended in it at the time we just used it against Sunderland posters
I remember CSM getting quite a bit of use some time back, just checking its acceptability in todays climate. No problem with not using it as we aren't really short of "epithets"
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Just as someone wouldn't mind be called a gammon as it would be someone left leaning, intolerant of other people's opinions and closed minded calling them it to mark them as distinct from them.
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