While we're all posting untagged meta I'd just like to point out that a lot of ableist language gets thrown around fedi and no one ever seems to actually care about that ever.
You could argue "but no one says the r word," but the problem was never the word itself. It was the attitude behind it, the belief that insulting people based on perceived intelligence is at all ok.
That's an attitude fedi has in spades.
@alexpenclaw Indeed, this is way too big of a problem and there needs to be more calling out on this as it happens, and more important people need to be more willing to be called out. I'm not perfect in the least and I've slipped up out of habit in the past, but damn if I wasn't repentant when I was informed
This is not a hill to die on, people, it's introspection and correction that genuinely makes you a more decent person
@alexpenclaw tfw you mistype "importantly" and the toot's already been read orz
