PSA: Please for the love of God stop using the word “cretin”. It’s a slur for people born with congenital hypothyroidism (CHT, that used to be called cretinism) that causes physical and intellectual disability.
I think it’s unrealistic to expect a blanket moratorium on insults about intelligence, but words like “mong/mongoloid” (anti-Asian slur later applied to people with Down Syndrome), “spaz”, “downie”, “midget” and “cretin” refer to people born with specific developmental disorders. If you care enough not to use the “r–word”, please steer clear of these as well.
Reblogging with the addendum that the r-word is making a comeback nowadays, which tracks with the rise of fascism. If making intellectually disabled people (like my brother) into an object of mockery is right and normal for you, you are an eugenicist piece of shit who can’t clear the absolute lowest bar for humanity and decency.