Oh the cry of dismay that left my mouth when during researching I learned these insufferable fucks were already gone and I could not credit myself for playing a role in kicking their ass out the door. You haven't seen condescending hypocritical bullshit until you've seen this, I assure you.

Honestly, no setup can do the stupidity of this article justice, so lets just start cutting it up. If you're worried I'm taking things out of context, see for yourself, this asinine bullshit is exactly what I am presenting it as.

Following on yesterday’s profile of “cretin,” I thought I’d tackle “idiot” this morning.

What an honor to get a lesson from an expert in the field. The following couple paragraphs are linguistic word history shit, I don't care and neither do you, so we'll skip ahead to this:

So, we can see that “idiot” is ableist from several perspectives. It’s yet another word used to denigrate lack of intelligence, and it’s a word with a history as a specific diagnostic term. So, what can we use as an alternative to “idiot”?

How about "dipshit"? As in "are you seriously writing an article crying about the horrific slander behind the word 'idiot', you fucking dipshit"

One of the things about exploring ableist language is that it forces us to think about the actual meaning of a sentence; when you find yourself wanting to refer to someone as an “idiot” or something as “idiotic,” pause and think about the meaning of what you are trying to say.

Y'know, generally what I'm trying to say when I'm using the word idiot isn't very complimentary, and I can proudly say I usually have a pretty decent understanding of the overall theme I'm trying to convey with my word selections. When I'm at a restaurant trying to get the balsamic vinaigrette on my side salad, very rarely do I accidentally refer to it as a cat rapist.

“Idiot” is also used in rhetoric to talk about someone who is uninformed about an issue or someone who is unaware of the complexities of a topic. In this sense, a value judgment is being made about someone’s intelligence on the basis of the fact that this person is not familiar with the fine and nuanced details of everything on Earth.

What the fuck is this idiotic shit? This excerpt does not word for word say "it's unfair to think somebody is an idiot until you've very thoroughly grilled them on every topic imaginable", but you can certainly argue that is what it is implying. It's more or less saying "just because somebody doesn't know about X doesn't mean they aren't a scholar of Y". That in itself is an accurate statement, but not when it's blanketed to this extreme. Lets see how NO EXCEPTIONS strategy plays out in real life.

"Hello, person with pants on backwards trying to eat the side of a building. Are you aware that attempting to wipe your ass with a belt sander is a poor decision?"

"No, I did not realize that"

"Okay. I have lingering feelings you may be somewhat unintelligent but coming to that conclusion without interviewing you about astrophysics would not be justifyable, so allow us to speak for several more hours"

What the fuck does this have to do with disabled people anyway? Do disabled people get made fun of sometimes? Sure, but it's been a while since I've seen people run up to a guy in a wheelchair to go LOL IDIOT. For a while this article was just a boring entry on the history of a word, which hey, good for you I guess. Then it translated into a rally against "the I word", which, Jesus Christ. Get fucked.

Then, on January 1st this year, something the only reason I wasn't begging for earlier was due to not knowing about the existence of this stunning display of pointlessness (DON'T CALL ME AN IDIOT THOUGH, I KNOW OTHER THINGS) happened.

Dear Readers:

We agreed when we began that this site wouldn’t run indefinitely, that we would move aside when the time has come, and that time has come.

And nothing of value was lost, because they won't fucking get rid of it. In closing, lets read the description of the author.

s.e. smith (who used to appear under the pseudonym ‘meloukhia’) is a genderqueer, fat, white, lower middle class person with disabilities who lives in Northern California.

Okay. So "genderqueer" and "fat" are okay, but "idiot" isn't. What.