How could this word even be removed. Unlike the N word it actually has legitimate uses. I didn't even know it was "bad" to say.

The lefts incessant battle about words and PR policing has been part of the reason we keep losing elections.

It's such an easy way to drive the casual person away, when you are constantly switching definitions and trying to trip people up to call them assholes, because they didn't immediately agree with you about switching the definition of a word.

They are such nonsense issues but they are fantastic at dividing left from right, and even splintering the left itself.

It honestly feels like some right wing think tank tried to come up with a way to undermine the message and credibility of the left, by having them fight word battles all day long. And oh boy has it worked.

The word hasn't seen widespread use as a "disability slur" for a very long time. The great irony of this very vocal online minority continuing to fake offence and turn it into a political left vs right thing is that they are actually trying to take us back to the world in which the word has real power. If they were genuinely concerned about the word then they would just shut the fuck up and let it exist as the generic insult it has become.

no one has ever been offended by the word removed, unless they are getting offended on someone else's behalf to virtue signal