{"id":2385,"date":"2014-02-16T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T04:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2014-02-21T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:17:41","slug":"on-iq-related-slurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/02\/16\/on-iq-related-slurs\/","title":{"rendered":"On IQ-related pejoratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I honestly don’t see the point in\u00a0calling someone “stupid” or “retarded” or “moronic” or “idiotic” or what-have-you.<\/p>\n

If they really are relatively unintelligent, you’re not going to help them become any smarter by being insulting to them.<\/p>\n

If they are merely ignorant on some point, you are\u00a0not going to help them learn anything by being insulting to them.<\/p>\n

If they are merely annoying you, why resort to personal insults? Does that ever really work?<\/p>\n

I can think of situations in which all of those words are appropriate, but I honestly cannot think of how they might possibly be useful in civil discourse when applied specifically to one’s interlocutor.\u00a0I’m not going to go so far as to say I’m banning<\/a> “stupid” because maybe I (stupidly) overlooked some excellent usage of these terms. You are welcome to correct me, of course.<\/p>\n

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