I think that when people (hopefully all of us on this website) work to eliminate ableist language from their vocabulary, they end up with many fewer words to describe certain patterns/behaviors negatively.

Put your favorite non-ableist insult/descriptor in the comments!

  • Sam [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s precisely avoiding calling someone too stupid to understand something, but instead asserts that they do have the capacity to understand something but that they’re choosing not to, by deliberately not thinking about it. I don’t know of a good english word for it though.

    Willful ignorance would be what I would use to describe that in English.

    • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      “Willful ignorance” doesn’t have the same sting though. At least to me, because sometimes ignorance is bliss and I choose to stay ignorant on a topic, like e.g. the details of a massacre, to not spiral into doom and gloom.

      Calling someone lazy though, in this protestant brained western world, is pretty offensive.

      Like some lib going: “wow you tankies are abolutely incoherent” would be a prime target along the lines of “you haven’t enganged with anything I said but instead dismiss it all as ‘incoherent’ because you’re denkfaul”.