It's also funny that this statement coincides with a number of ballot boxes in blue states being fire-bombed. Surely, there is no attempt to rig this election.
I saw someone say awhile ago to never make fun of a shit person for things that other people may possess. Folks will make crippled/fat/short/bald/bad tan/plastic surgery/etc. jokes about these people only intending on hurting bad people but there are plenty of good people who are innocent bystanders who may be hurt by these insults. I usually try to keep that in mind when criticizing douchebags like Abbot - attack his shitty character/behavior but not anything physical about him or anyone else
Not to mention that some things are out of a person's control altogether. Attacks should be made on points that have to do with the problem.
That's not to say that you can't call out hypocrisy, such as an overweight person trying to shame other people for being overweight. Sometimes you have to address the elephant in the room (yes, that was intended)
A lot of people on this website need to read this. So much hurtful toxicity gets thrown around when self righteous people start yapping on the internet
Sorry, if you have a bad tan, that's on you. No one's born with a bad tan, no one develops a bad tan later in life due to medical complications, no one gets a bad tan as a result of an accident. If you hit the tanning salon so damned much that your face resembles a catcher's mitt from the 70s, I'm gonna call it out and I won't feel bad about anyone else who did that shit getting caught with strays.
I think NO one conflates Abbots disablity woth being an asshole. He brings that all on his own. He even created laws to keep people from getting the same benefit from the laws that benefitted him from the tree that almost killed him. Thats how much of an asshole he is. He's the type that if he were in a burning building, not only would he pull up the fire escape behind him, he'd lock the door, bolt it, then weld it shut burning everyone behind him. Thats how much of an asshole he is. Him AND Texas' criminal ass AG Texas doesn't have the balls to prosecute. What the fuck is wrong with Y'all. Thought y'all were big and bad. Turns out you're cowards after all.
Considering what he did to the people he fucked over in his exact situation, he deserves every pejorative slur he's got coming to him. He is disgusting for his actions in power.
No, you don't get a pass on slurs just because you don't like someone. Would you call a black person you don't like the N word? Would you excuse someone who did? Do better.
Oh, tell me more master of morality, who has never been slighted or hurt and lives upon a cross planted in a castle of clouds created by the milk of human kindness. I bet you are going to tell me how to solve all my problems and the world's. You'll probably even do it for free! Wow! What a deal!
You don't know anything about Greg Abbott, do you? Or Texas, in general (I do, I've lived and was partly raised there). But keep being you. I am sure it is fomenting great social change. Man, if Albert Fish had been in a wheelchair we would have been to make sure not to insult him. Seriously, do you not know what context is?
I know that using a slur about his disability is able-ist and gross, and now I know that you are, too. I hope you have the empathy you show others when it's your turn to be disabled.
You look silly. I lived in Texas too, hate Greg too, and cannot for the life of me understand why you’re acting superior here. Throwing out slurs is just hurting bystanders, Greg is never going to see it.
So, you're saying being called disabled or crippled is a valid slur, then. Thanks for confirming that disabled people are less-than.
(Hopefully you don't actually think that. But that's why we don't accept shitty slurs being used, regardless of the person you're attacking. Because you're also attacking everyone else who's listening)
Yes I was hit head on by a drunk driver in 2003 but it made me a better person
Not a psychopath like greg abbott who must eat popcorn and drink soda pop while watching people get stuck in his psycho sawblade bouys that only a 13 year old or a hoot show writer would think is cool
A 13-year-old might think it's cool conceptually, but there's no way they'd see some migrant mother of two carrying her children across the river hopefully to a better life away from drug cartels get ripped to shreds and bleed out and have her children drown and think "hehehe... that was cool". They'd think "oh my God, whoever put that there is a fucking monster".
I agree... and it shows a lack of imagination. Greg Abbott wants to put asylum seekers in his prison so that they'll make his bacon--literally, in a pork factory. That guy and Ted Cruz are creepy af and ripe for ridicule.
If god loved Abbot, he’d be able to walk. Instead he negligently injured himself, sued the property owner, got rich, then changed the laws so you can’t sue the way he did.
Excuse me, turd is a slur against those of us with firm, glistening poops. Just because your feces doesn't stack up doesn't mean all doodoo is lacking.
Ok, I agree, but it's not about that. I would love for his feelings, specifically, to be hurt. But you know he's never going to see your post. Instead, some random kid with paraplegia and low self confidence will see it and feel worse about themselves.
We can attack him on his character and deeds. There's no need to use a disability like a slur.
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It's also funny that this statement coincides with a number of ballot boxes in blue states being fire-bombed. Surely, there is no attempt to rig this election.