*hug* Either they're ignorant about it and will learn, or they're willfully repeating those things and don't care who they hurt. There's not a lot we can do about the latter, but at least the former there's some hope for.
@dodec I feel like it's ignorance in a lot of cases. It's not obviously ableist and you only learn about that when you get into the history of it and how it originated on 4chan.
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