A three-time Trump voter was left devastated after the immigration policies of the president he repeatedly supported resulted in his wife being taken away.
Tech salesman and former MAGA supporter Brent Jindra, 48, was stunned when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained his wife, Galina Bobreneva, after the couple landed at Burbank Airport in California, The New York Times reported.
“A U.S. citizen just watched his wife get dragged away and had no idea where she was going,” Jindra, who voted for President Donald Trump, 80, because of his promises of strict immigration enforcement, recalled of the day.
How would you rewrite that part of the sentence that used the “R” word? It seems like “idiot” and “stupid” (edit: “moron”) are also terms with historical baggage, and likely fall into the same category of being a slur. Or is it just because the “R” word is still in use by the medical field? I suppose “dumbass” is the first word that comes to mind without historical (or current?) baggage, and I’m personally fine to use that term to replace all the others above. But the links you provided don’t really give guidance on how to express the above in a “safe” alternative way (note the original was an internal thought); I guess I’m here proposing that everyone just use “dumbass” (shout out to “Red”).
Edit: I guess “dumb” also has its problems; perhaps even “fool”?
There are so many fun words to use!
You can also make new ones.
Like their father being a hamster, and their mother smelling of elderberries.
The british. One creativ people. Not like these in dung swimming fish MAGidiots
Ahah, a person of culture!
Historic baggage maybe, but certainly not current baggage. The “R” word has current baggage.
And that’s the difference.
Yes, language changes, and we adjust - “colored” used to be the preferred word when discussing black people.
Speaking of discussing African Americans, do you think the NAACP should change it’s name?
As a cis white male, I have absolutely zero say in that.
I will say that there are previous clients of mine who still have the official medical diagnosis of “MR”, i.e. “Mental Retardation”. That is no longer the preferred medical diagnosis.
Neither of those things have much to do with people calling people the “R” word or calling black people “coloreds” or the like.
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