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

Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:09 pm to
Posted by Jcorye1
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:09 pm to
This is such a stupid hill to die on. Most people don't care at all what so ever.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:09 pm to
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If I were in that situation I would do some reflection on why I wanted to use such language


I reflected on it, it’s because you’re gay and retarded
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:23 pm to
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We are all atheists
so you didn’t just raise queer supporters, you raising some retard heathens as well…. Good job dad
Posted by threedog79
Member since Sep 2013
3340 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 12:27 pm to
Honest question: “retard(ed)” was deemed a slur?

Man, either I have been really disconnected or the piece of the world I live could care less.

I thought the word meant slow. So someone with a learning disability is retarded.
Posted by AwgustaDawg
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 1:57 pm to
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so you didn’t just raise queer supporters, you raising some retard heathens as well…. Good job dad


Thank you soooo much. Man y'all are just full of compliments today. Yes, I am pretty proud that my progeny have, of their own accord and despite their grandmothers concerted efforts to undermine their parents, to reject superstition, hatred and irrational fear. Based on the fact that most of you are scared to speak your minds and are oppressed due to your own fears if any of you were to think I was a good dad and my kids weren't retarded, gay loving heathens I would have to rethink some things....but the anger on display here is proof of our having made the right decisions with allowing our kids to form their own opinions without shaming them into conforming to the ignorance that is and always has caused so much grief and pain in the world...
Posted by AwgustaDawg
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 1:58 pm to
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I reflected on it, it’s because you’re gay and retarded


I get it man. You are scared to say what's in your heart. Truly sad that what would appear to be an adult is scared to use words that they soooooo badly want to use....fear is crippling.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:01 pm to
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You are scared to say what's in your heart.


Posted by WeeWee
Member since Aug 2012
42882 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:31 pm to
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The federal government signaled its support to end the use of the r-word with 2010’s “Rosa’s Law,” named for a young girl with Down syndrome, which updated all federal laws to use “intellectual disability” in place of “mental retardation.” The legislation stated that the term and its “derivatives,” including the r-word, were “used to demean and insult both persons with and without disabilities.”


That was a pretty retarded think for the federal government to do. All it did was induce people to call someone intellectually disabled instead of retarded.
Posted by Loup
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Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:32 pm to
I try not to use it because I know it can be hurtful to some folks. I just say that something is a little left handed instead of saying that it's gay or retarded.
Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:38 pm to
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When disability is framed as a lack, limitation or loss, it reinforces the idea that people with disabilities are inherently incapable. This framing is used to justify their exclusion from everyday life, as if they are missing what it takes to participate.” van Heumen told CNN.
Posted by LaLadyinTx
Cypress, TX
Member since Nov 2018
6823 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:44 pm to
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Sticks and stones and all that. End "retiring" words.


100%! There are no words that should be off limits. Doesn't mean I'd go around saying them, but truly sticks and stones should be true. Now, sticks and stones seems to be much worse than somebody actually kicking your arse. It's crazy!
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:47 pm to
Well you are gay and retarded which is why your daughter is woke
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 2:48 pm to
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would never call an actual developmentally impaired person retarded. I will however call retards retarded all day long


This is my take. Call dumbasses retards any time you want. Pick on someone with a handicap with malice around me, it’s not going be a good day for you.
Posted by AwgustaDawg
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 3:07 pm to
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100%! There are no words that should be off limits. Doesn't mean I'd go around saying them, but truly sticks and stones should be true. Now, sticks and stones seems to be much worse than somebody actually kicking your arse. It's crazy!


There are almost no words that one can not say in the United States. Fire in a crowded theater is one that comes to mind....but anyone is free to stand on the street corner and say any kind of racial epithet or similarly disgusting words and there ain't a thing in the world other common sense preventing it.

If someone does indeed decide to do just that and someone attacks them physically that someone should of course be arrested for physically assaulting someone over words...although there are such things as "fighting" words, like someone calling your wife the C word, which have been upheld in court decisions....but we are and have been free to say just about anything we want. Doing so may be unpleasant but if it is something one really and truly wants to do they should just do it....repressed emotions are unhealthy.
Posted by rocksteady
Member since Sep 2013
1808 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 3:12 pm to
They worked real hard to remove retarded because it’s evil and insert “minor attracted persons” as normal. Fagots
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
17053 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 3:17 pm to
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Having a few actual retarded people in my family


Your mom still loves you as if you were normal, so don't be too hard on yourself.
Posted by Buzz Lightbeer
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 3:23 pm to
Posted by Nevada_Tiger
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Member since Jan 2025
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 5:15 pm to
I’ve used it when chatting up a girl - when she asks what I do…I say I work with retards. You have to say it seriously and not laugh until they do though. It’s a very high risk / high reward move.
Posted by Prosecuted Collins
The Farm
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 6:09 pm to
This thread brought out all the retards.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
43629 posts
Posted on 6/2/25 at 6:12 pm to
common sense has left the building. No one is calling an actual mentally disabled person a retard. My wife’s maiden name is Tardo you can guess what she got called all thru childhood LOL
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