• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for letting me know. I thought it was equivalent to “Neanderthal” but just looked it up. I won’t use it again.

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        1 year ago

        Detectives assemble! Something that could be confused as similar to Neanderthal, but isn’t. I’m guessing mongoloid?

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          1 year ago

          You guessed correctly. It is not always a slur, more a description in an anachronistic method of defining human ‘races’, but is apparently a slur used against autistic people and therefore has been deleted from my mental vocabulary.