Wikepedia states
“Much like today’s socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult.”
Is it only a slur if directed at soneone with mental disabilities? Is it a slur if durected at onself?
Whats lemmies take on this?
To me, it’s no different from idiot and moron. I’ve been watching how the politically correct movement have been making people afraid to use retard. I’m sure they are coming for the words idiot and moron also at some point, and they are going to argue that there is no need to ever use words like that.
Good for you that you are privileged enough to say such bullshit. Try making your friends use your name as an insult and see how it feels
Are you retared by the medical definition or are you getting offended on behalf of people who are. Cos the actually retarded people in this thread who have commented have all said they are fine with it.
Think about this for a second. What if I am offended by the word “trumpet” because it reminds me of Trump? Shall we ban that word as well?
You guys who are into banning words don’t seem to realize that there used it be book burnings by the Germans, because they felt what the books said was against their own beliefs. I rather not go down that route because someone is feeling sad about a word.
If you ban retard, they will come up with another word. Don’t you realize that?
Had a reddit post deleted for using retard as a verb, as in, “Have you tried retarding the action, maybe it’s too fast?”
Because people today don’t question what they are being told. Is it a good idea to ban words? I don’t think so.
Most mods don’t have much of reading comprehensive beyond 10th grade tbh.