As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there’s been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it’s fine to disagree, I’m finding it suspicious that there weren’t comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

  • Genius@lemmy.zip
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    pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.

    You’ve got a typo there. What you meant to write was “pissed at him for struggling with managing the symptoms from his narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis too much to shut up and let the movement die.”

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      You know that someone can act like something without being that thing right? You can say someone is narcissistic without them being an actual narcissist.

      Like me saying that you’re stupid shouldn’t imply that you’ve had a traumatic brain injury or were born without a frontal lobe.

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        That’s a false equivalence. “Stupid” isn’t the same as any of the words in the diagnosis “mental retardation” (recently updated to intellectual disability). Your example would work better if you did it like this:

        Like me saying that you’re retarded shouldn’t imply that you have mental retardation.

        There, that’s a much closer analogy. Do you still stand by your point if we use a proper equivalence?

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        Putting the focus on the personal struggle of managing the symptoms is more empathetic, and using the full name of the diagnosis instead of contracted nouns helps avoid using slurs and/or dehumanising the patent.

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          and using the full name of the diagnosis instead of contracted nouns helps avoid using slurs and/or dehumanising the patent.

          You’ve got a typo there. Unless you can prove that said person was indeed diagnosed with such disability by an appropriate medical authority, let’s not use such term that could either be considered defamation, or at least medical disinformation. (/i)

          People say what they intend to say, not what you wish them to. If you believe they are incorrect, no need to be pedantic about it. Just argue why, you’d find out people are way more open to arguments when they do not feel like you are condidering them as idiots.

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            I don’t think he has NPD at all, I think Rakonat is mistaken to randomly accuse him of mental illness just because they don’t like him.

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            You’re saying Elon Musk is an ally to disabled people?? Are you part of the Nazi cult?

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          Narcissists are literally destroying our planet and our way of life, but let’s make sure we don’t offend anyone when we mention them.

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            Your comment has a typo. You meant to write “human beings who developed narcissistic personality disorder due to childhood trauma and now struggle with identity and empathy to the detriment of their own wellbeing as described in the DSM 5 are literally destroying our planet and our way of life”

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          You know hes using a figure of speech right? Are you protesting the usage of narcissism as an unofficial negative descriptor?