Basically saying “you’re stupid without reason”

“ will say that nobody is stupid by choice”

Personal perspective logic has convinced many a person to do some high level dumbassery. People consciously do stupid shit all the time

Truthfully the logic behind what is socially acceptable to say and what is not is largely arbitrary. You will find that those who express an acceptable sentiment that carries largely the same meaning as an unacceptable one do not actually object to the unacceptable one for any reasons other than the way it will cause others to react. Not to mention, the factors that shape a person's intelligence are complex and chalking up a lack of intelligence to something like laziness is reductive and ignores a lot of well established psychological and sociological influences that are often beyond people's control.

Well MoM, what you are describing is people who willfully make bad decisions. I would argue these decisions are made as a result of their intelligence or lack thereof. If they possessed the intelligence to make good decisions they would simply not make bad ones.

Album Rating: 4.0

"Truthfully the logic behind what is socially acceptable to say and what is not is largely arbitrary. You will find that those who express an acceptable sentiment that carries largely the same meaning as an unacceptable one do not actually object to the unacceptable one for any reasons other than the way it will cause others to react."



150% this ^

Exactly. And the whole basis of assuming another’s total intelligence in a quantifiable way is ridiculous, and comparative to an end that can only be defined by another’s own ego.

So, for example, if dude slap someone because they didn’t like something, imma call em a retard. But only cause they’re consciously choosing to do something hella stupid

It seems that you have missed the point here entirely, but as I said before, it's not your fault.

Ain’t any relation to, or mention of, mental handicaps when i drop the tard word heard what the bird durn surd

Album Rating: 5.0

Tbh a Zappa is the perfect place to discuss this since he’s all about political discourse…especially concerning those he finds to be idiots lol

I just think being a compassionate person requires a general sense of empathy and understanding of the nuances of why people behave a certain way. To say you only have compassion if there is a certain word attached to them that justifies it to you but otherwise screw them, everything is their fault, you are most likely being hypocritical.

Album Rating: 4.0

taking it back to the actual album for a second: it took me like 5 spins to fully lock in my thoughts on this but man oh man what an album. ars you made me worried that this was some totally incoherent freeform jazz fuckfest but everything here sounds so deliberate and has purpose. what's more it's legitimately catchy a lot of the time and has some great melodies and dope solos. i'm obsessed with son of mr green genes

Album Rating: 4.0

also agreed with everything strayk has said so far

Yes this is one of his most 'grounded' albums I would say. Easier to get into. Not that his jazz albums aren't also great.

Album Rating: 4.0

What is this chatGBT discourse



To use the R-word as an insult implies that those that the word literally describes (or used to be used to describe) are similarly worthy of insult, or that it is inherently bad to be “retarded” (hence why it’s insulting). It didn’t originally have the meaning of “stupid” or “idiot”, it developed that connection through the use of the originally medical term (used to describe children with mental disabilities or slow development) as an insult.



Same logic that means using the word gay as an insult is a bad thing to do. There’s the slight complication that the R-word is no longer used as a medical term, I think, because it garnered such a pejorative connotation though it’s use as an insult that they stoped using it, and replaced it with “handicapped”, but tbf using handicapped as an insult is still, err, rude, but I don’t think seen as a slur / no-go word in the same way for reasons I don’t understand words are hard.

That is essentially my point, using the 'correct' words does not absolve you of the sentiment.

Album Rating: 4.5

Lets all play nice please *sad face*, r-word is not cool m-kay, this album is good

Album Rating: 4.0

what do i do if for my birthday my friend bought me an r-word pass? because realistically you should be able to use those with no problems but you'd be surprised how many people don't honor the pass.

Fuck it. If i call you a retard(speaking hypothetically), it’s not in any way in reference to mental disabilities or handicaps

It’s like, “you have a conscious decision to make, and this is what you choose to do?”

“You’re a retard. There’s nothing wrong with you, so you chose to make something wrong with you”

Album Rating: 4.0

*sighs in linguistics*



Fwiw there’s a big difference between using potentially offensive words in public chit chat over the internet with strangers vs. a private / home environment with people you know well (and whose sense of humour you also know well). Far more room for intent to get twisted (or remain ambiguous) in the former vs the latter, or for the words to be viewed by those beyond the intended audience.

Album Rating: 4.0

Also good album