average people love insults like “low IQ,” “b!tch,” and many other things that modern socialists find unsavory.

This is a dogshit opinion and bordering on patsoc behavior. Average people also love to ruthlessly shit on communism, and we mean to convince them otherwise, but suddenly combatting bigotry will be a bridge too far? Fuck that, bigotry is a tool that will be ruthlessly exploited by the ruling class, and must strive to stamp it out as part of the class war. If you don’t believe me, look into how white trade unionists and communists valued their whiteness over solidarity with black comrades in the early 20th century. Are marginalized comrades supposed to just suck it up while their supposed comrades call other members of their community slurs???

At a certain point we are hurting our own movement by trying to be PC.

“Kill all slave owners”. “Death to Amerikkka”. “Shut up cracker”. All shit regularly said by communists online. None of us hold any opinions that are “politically correct”, fighting bigotry isn’t PC

There is also no definitive line we draw. You may say that line is with “low IQ,” but someone who claims to be woker than you will say that the origins of stupid, dumb, idiot, moron, etc. are all equally ableist

Absolutely horrendous argument, do you think the r-slur isn’t too far? Just because there isn’t a definitive line to draw in the sand, doesn’t mean there isn’t a huge difference between the r-slur and idiot. The language right at the edge will always be a struggle, but that doesn’t mean we wipe our hands of it entirely.

Not to mention, we absolutely should be taking an opportunity to impune our enemies as stupid, or as useless/cruel (whatever the implication of “b!tch” was in whatever ya’all are referring to), because, well, they are.

Unfortunately, people will often respond to a dunk better than a graph.

I literally advocated for dunking, just use language that isn’t wrapped in bigotry. Call people a cracker, worm, whatever.

That is blatantly wrong and no it wasn’t. It was created to help French school children with their studies by helping teachers understand where they were lagging behind and needed more help in. As “General Intelligence” was thought to be changeable and just a metric of how much people are educated in base subjects like math, vocabulary, reading, base problem solving, and pattern recognition. Something that IQ is decently good at quantifying. IQ is not a measure of “How smart” a person is.

The eugenics movement, racists, and Nazis used IQ for race science. But that came 20-30 years after the first usages of IQ.

They spread the myth that IQ is unchangeable and genetic, when in reality it is a metric that is affected by material conditions and education.

it’s not calling someone stupid that’s ableist, it’s specifically using “low IQ”

yes, it’s like when liberals make the homophobic Putin/Trump jokes, it’s homophobic when they do it, and we shouldn’t let misogyny like that slip by either, even if we like Chen a lot.