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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lord, they forced her to remove the word "spazzin" from one of her new songs.  The lyric is "Spazzin on that azz".  Ridiculous! [/quote]

There's really no excuse though. The disability community already went through this with Lizzo, who responded appropriately. How can you possibly say you didn't know?

You don't *have* to care about using hurtful words, though. It's your choice to decide not to worry about it and leave it as is. [b]Take a known shot at people with a disability?[/b] Go for it. If that's your choice. But to claim she didn't know is utter BS. And to claim it's not a slur to many is also BS. She just thought, hey, I'm queen whatever they call her. [/quote]  She wasn't taking a shot at people with disabilities.  In slang it means 'going off'.  She wasn't using it to refer to anyone with a disability. [/quote]

Once the whole Lizzo thing went around, she knew. At that point, it became a known shot. It wasn't even "well, it wasn't exactly the same, give her a break." It was the. Exact. Same. Word. The. Disability. Community. Told. Everyone. Is. Offensive. It can be pretty dicey if you want to start deciding when some people's intent is more important than the negative impact words have. They're *telling* all of us very clearly it's harmful. Why would you defend a slur?? Once anyone tells me a word is offensive (not to just to one person, but to an entire community of people) I do them the courtesy of not using it. [/quote] That Lizzo situation happened weeks before B dropped her album, you don’t know what she did or didn’t know. [/quote]

GMAFB. As one PP said, if she herself didn't know, someone in her camp HAD to know. It was everywhere. I don't follow either of these people as musicians and it was everywhere for me. [/quote]

Relax.  You all win.

Beyoncé used ‘ableist’ slur in a new song. After uproar, she’s deleting it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/02/beyonce-spaz-slur/
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This is getting ridiculous. Are we not allowed to use the word schizo anymore either? [/quote]

Not a matter of "allowed." Use it all you want, if you choose to come across as a profoundly tone-deaf jerk.

It's a slur and an ugly one which belittles and devalues people with an actual mental illness.

I guess you don't have a loved one with diagnosed schizophrenia. Lucky, lucky you. [/quote]

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