Fulminator
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it naturally fell out of my vocabulary a year or two after high school
i hear it around sometimes, but not too often
i hear it around sometimes, but not too often
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Is the "R-slur" becoming more accepted in Trump's America?
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What I ask myself whenever people bring up PC culture.
entremet
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I think it's intellectual disability correct?
Jangowuzhere
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Come on, the word has been becoming far less acceptable over the years. You can't just say it willy nilly and not end up raising a few eyebrows in certain crowds.
It's a bit much honestly. I get that it's an offensive term, but it really doesn't bother me when I hear other people saying it. Most people don't use it as a way to insult other people, but more of a way to call out lame or stupid ideas.
The overuse of the "bitch" word strikes me as a far more offensive. People these days just casually throw that word around like it means nothing.
It's a bit much honestly. I get that it's an offensive term, but it really doesn't bother me when I hear other people saying it. Most people don't use it as a way to insult other people, but more of a way to call out lame or stupid ideas.
The overuse of the "bitch" word strikes me as a far more offensive. People these days just casually throw that word around like it means nothing.
Tragicomedy
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You usually hear intellectually delayed or intellectual disability.
Emerson
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If we're being honest the vast majority of medical professionals still use "MR" as common parlance, despite the fact that 'mental retardation' is not the medically correct term anymore.
The very word is referring entirely to a specific group of marginalized people. You can't just say it doesn't mean that.
LordKasual
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you absolutely haven't been paying attention
Tragicomedy
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Perhaps, though I've never heard that in a single meeting with multiple doctors, specialists, or educational therapists.
It's always intellectually delayed.
Count Dookkake
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It's a stupid word for dumb idiots and morons.
Yeah I can, because the meaning of the word isn't about a group of people:
M-w
Definition of retard
transitive verb
: to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment : impede
It entirely depends on how it's used, for example, the song, is using it as a verb, not a noun.
People used gay to call out lame and stupid things as well. It matters.
The threads with people wanting to cling to that were something to see.
Emerson
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Sounds like you may be working in circles that deal more directly with that population, so that would make sense.
If you just listen in on a hospitalist and a consultant in a hospital you will usually hear them say "22 year old male, history of MR" etc.
u really using 'lame' that way eh
You could literally say the same thing about the word gay and how it was used. When people were using that term it didn't literally mean everything it was used about was gay. Its still very insulting to gay people.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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The meaning of words can change. Idiot used to mean the same thing
I'm not arguing whether it has or hasn't in this case, but the argument isn't as cut and dry as seem to think
radios shipping overview
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I was a little surprised to hear Louis CK use it in his latest special, but there was a lot in that special that seemed super cynical and tonally weird.
Hmm, accurate tag. Run along now.
Hmm, accurate tag. Run along now.
Poor GRIMES
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Please...you know what it means. This is like the people who say fag is just a kindling of wood. Willfully obtuse.
Its still insulting here and now to a lot of people. Whats your point?
Come on now, I was remixing them.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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If you don't understand my point, you need to read my comment again. There are lots of words that can be offensive to people for any number of reasons; that alone in and of itself isn't a compelling argument against all of them
What medical professionals are you hanging around?
Not really. It's the first fucking definition of the word in the dictionary and has an actual use in sentences:
Definition of retard for Students
retarded; retarding
: to slow down : delay Bad weather retarded our progress.
Merrimack Webster should probably change some things up if this is how they instructing students if it's so offensive.
You can use the word with the proper context without it being offensive.
If you are using at as a noun to describe a person, yeah it's offensive, as merriam points out.
Well feel free to start dropping those racial slurs because not everyone finds them offensive.
That words change meaning all the time?
I'm guessing we can't use idiot, moron, dumb because there are people who are actually born that way and it's offensive to them if we use them so casually.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Yeah, because that's exactly what I said.
See, this person understood it. Why don't you?
Poor GRIMES
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The dictionary also says ketchup is spicy. When's the last time you heard someone say "bad weather retarded our progress" or any variant of that usage?
Tragicomedy
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Exactly, as a parent of a young child on the spectrum. Never heard that type of language.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Is it just me, or does this one seem popular among the alt-right?
Because I'm not talking about a few decades ago or into the future. Here and now the word still holds a very ugly connotation to a lot of people for fairly obvious reasons.
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There was a major publicity campaign ("The R-Word") back in 2009 against use of the word that dramatically reduced general usage. I don't think that organization has been as active since then.
Vincent Grayson
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I feel like use of it has declined in recent years, or had. I don't know that I've seen any more of it post-Trump, but anything's possible.
My wife works with intellectually disabled adults, so it doesn't see any use here, and my kids haven mentioned it definitely being a word they understand as a word you don't say.
My wife works with intellectually disabled adults, so it doesn't see any use here, and my kids haven mentioned it definitely being a word they understand as a word you don't say.
I've noticed university people my age (19) use it
radios shipping overview
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Are we gonna have a train of people coming in here and making fun of a concept they know nothing about?
Let's get retarded in here
Yes a shitty song that got a ton of flak over a decade ago for using that very word. That decides it.
gutter_trash
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I don't know about other regions, but it is still heavily used in the Montreal area.
Plentifully used towards other dirvers, pederstrians and cyclists
Plentifully used towards other dirvers, pederstrians and cyclists
Tragicomedy
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Are you asking a serious (and uninformed) question or being willfully stupid?
The irony in such a post is amazing.
Poor GRIMES
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Dracula's Nether Region
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I know a guy who made an effort to remove it from his lexicon. He uses it now, years later.
Would like it to go away, but then again as someone mentioned there are a variety of autism-related words that are now "in fashion." There will always be something to replace how horrible we speak to each other.
And I've definitely seen people meme-post "*autistic screeching*" around here before. An inventive word pairing I'll give the original creators that, but intolerant and clearly in poor taste.
Would like it to go away, but then again as someone mentioned there are a variety of autism-related words that are now "in fashion." There will always be something to replace how horrible we speak to each other.
And I've definitely seen people meme-post "*autistic screeching*" around here before. An inventive word pairing I'll give the original creators that, but intolerant and clearly in poor taste.
Amory
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If this isn't a progressive haven, I don't know what is.
Anything other than hard left is completely unacceptable on this forum.
PixelatedBookake
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THAT'S what they were saying??? I had probably heard that song a million times as a kid on Radio Disney and that they were saying "It's getting hotter in here"
Maybe that was the censored version?
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