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re: The ‘r-word’ is back. How a slur became renormalized

Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:20 am to
Posted by rowbear1922
Houston, TX
Member since Oct 2008
15596 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:20 am to
The retards at CNN still have no clue why they lost the November elections
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65283 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:21 am to
I got unfriended by a Karen on Facebook who said there was never any reason to use that word. I asked her how I should explain that the timing in my 1967 Camaro was either advanced or retarded.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
32152 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:22 am to
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it is a medical term, not a slur.


Exactly. The way our society is, is that all words become slurs over time. So we just keep changing to new words until those words become slurs.

Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
30943 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:24 am to
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I def don’t get offended when people say it and would never make a scene about someone saying it But I do cringe when I hear it and don’t personally use it anymore. Having a few actual retarded people in my family changed me as I aged


I would never call an actual developmentally impaired person retarded. I will however call retards retarded all day long
Posted by MRTigerFan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
5420 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:24 am to
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referring to someone from the far east as Oriental was racist and not accepted in today's society. Who knew??

The correct word is chinamen
Posted by Tr33fiddy
Hog Jaw, Arkansas (it exists)
Member since Aug 2023
1488 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:28 am to
I miss the retarded policeman on YouTube. That dude was funny as hell. He loved doing it and it gave him a purpose and the cry babies took it from him.

Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
7207 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:28 am to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
25903 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:30 am to
The gatekeepers get mad when the common folks aren’t afraid to speak openly using the control words that have a hard ‘r’ in them.
Posted by Hondo Blacksheep
Member since Jul 2022
2835 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:30 am to
I mean, seriously, the "r-word"? That really is retarded.
Posted by Palomitz
Miami
Member since Oct 2009
2476 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:32 am to
Not too long ago (a couple of months back maybe), I was making a comment on FB and used the word retarded and FB did not let me post the comment.
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
41925 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:33 am to
Can you say they were from the Orient?
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
25812 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:36 am to
Well if Rogan said "retard" is back the 100s of millions of INCELS in America will start using it.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
30970 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:44 am to
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Lakeboy7



quote:

Well if Rogan said "retard" is back the 100s of millions of INCELS in America will start using it.



Posted by DecadePlusLurker
Member since Sep 2016
604 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:48 am to
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The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,”


This legitimately makes my blood boil. The modern left sees anyone who doesn't check their ideological boxes as subhuman, yet they have the gall to wrap themselves in the trappings of "empathy"

So, calling your friend retarded is a fundamentally cruel act that signals the death of empathy. Brought to you by the side that quite literally hates you for disagreeing with them.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
30970 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:50 am to
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The modern left sees anyone who doesn't check their ideological boxes as subhuman,


New Age Puritanism
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
43655 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:52 am to
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This legitimately makes my blood boil.
you should get that looked at
Posted by DecadePlusLurker
Member since Sep 2016
604 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 8:56 am to
You should suck a dick, retard
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
25812 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 9:00 am to
Oh come on, dont be mad everyone knows Rogan is the Pied Piper of American INCELS.

But I'm almost certain no INCELS post on the PT or OT.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
145084 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 9:01 am to
I dropped the word ‘retard’ yesterday to a group of parents at a 5yo party standing in front the bouncy house. You’d have thought I’d just pissed on the watermelon from the look of their faces.


I kinda felt bad after since I remembered some Chicago baw had just got done telling me how great the teachers have been at helping his autistic daughter.

But I was calling my own kids retarded, not theirs.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
29851 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 9:03 am to
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But I was calling my own kids retarded, not theirs.

" Hey, I wasn't talking to your retards! Just my own!"
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