Most fair-minded people would agree that people ought not be penalized for something they have no control over -- but that they shouldn't be rewarded for those things, either.
But some of the original causes have since been turned on their heads: minorities and feminists now demand discrimination in their favor.
Prejudices of all sorts are now analyzed and even invented by social justice warriors. Yet nobody ever seems to complain about prejudice against the dumb. To be honest, it's what some of these other movements have sort of morphed into anyway. So why not call it what it is?
In an era in which tests themselves are deemed "discriminatory," it's high time someone took up this cause.
Are dumb people not human too? Being dumb does not make you a bad person. Should they not have civil rights? Why should dumb people be excluded from the better colleges? Why should they not have a chance at the highest-paying jobs?
Why should this be the disability that dare not speak its name?
Just think of the great slogans that they could (mindlessly) chant:
"We're dumb, but we're not scum!" (To the lower-IQed, rhymes seems to imbue more meaning and truth to whatever they're saying.)
"'Dumb' is a four letter word!" (Or, perhaps, more in character, "'Stupid' is a four letter word!")
"America was built on the backs of dumb people!"
"Abolish intelligencism!"
"Stupid pride!"
A dumb person could say, with that vague but unmistakable sense of hysterical victimhood/entitlement, "I am a person of stupidity."
In fact, instead of trying to win arguments by logic, they could simply fall back on, "You're an intelligencist!" in the same way in which liberals try to end arguments by calling names.
There's really no argument against that.
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SJW's are holding back from championing the rights of the simpleminded because it would appear too self-serving.
Mark --
Ha!
They actually have weird dichotomy going on in that community about intelligence: on the one hand liberals all think of themselves as being "enlightened" and smarter than those knuckle-dragging backwards Neanderthal conservatives, on the other hand they consider anyone who brings up the subject of intelligence as a trait evil.
We have people championing the rights of the intellectually disabled. Liberals grant them the same rights as people with normal IQs. In my opinion, they should not marry or reproduce.
-birdie
Birdie --
I'm a little torn on that one. I don't think eugenics is a dirty word, in fact I think it's a good idea, but would I go so far as to advocate sterilizing all the mentally deficient? I don't know.
Having worked with the intellectually disabled, it's necessary to use common sense where they're concerned. Every one who has married or reproduced, a huge mistake. Liberals thinking about the intellectually disabled is not based in reality. There are some things that intellectually disabled people should avoid doing, otherwise, they're in over their heads.
-birdie
Birdie --
I guess it boils down to, what's your definition of "mentally deficient," and whether the condition will be passed on in the next generation. If you're talking truly retarded, you're right. They can't be good parents, almost by definition. What i'd like to see is a program that encouraged the high-IQed to reproduce more, and the lower-IQ's to do so less, though not by force in either case. What we have going on now is basically the opposite. The irresponsible have lots of kids as an unintended byproduct of sex, and then they put those kids on welfare. The responsible (and intelligent) wait until they're financially secure to reproduce, and as a result have fewer offspring. As it stands now, we're doomed.
We used to call them retarded, but these days, that's discouraged. The liberals think it's fine for these people to marry, breed, etc. The argument is that we can't deny their human rights. Most retarded people have the mentality of children, so they're incapable of having successful long-term relationships and are incapable of being good parents. It's frustrating when liberals encourage these people to be sexually active, sometimes resulting in pregnancies. Children are usually removed from the parents care (for good reason), placed in foster care.
-birdie
Birdie --
What you've just said is also true, to a lesser extent, of people with IQ's between 70 and 85 (70 is the level regarded as functionally retarded). they have a harder time with relationships, parenting, etc.
The mentally retarded people that I've worked with have lived in group homes. Trust me, letting them have adult responsibilities is a huge mistake, disservice to them. One couple that I knew had a normal baby, now in foster care. This little guy's parents are still mentally children themselves. What a nightmare for the child.
-birdie
Birdie --
Good point, that kid was very unfortunate.
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