lol lost my blue start after saying retarded. Disabled people I consider 'handicapped' or whatever is a more polite term. Contradictions like this make you retarded. 'Ignorant' if you just really don't like that word I guess.
Look up the definition of retarded. It's not a knock on disabled people at all. By making that association you're the one insulting the disabled and screwing the rest of us out of both a word and an insult.
Mentally retarded was used as a diagnosis for years, and well it has largely fell out of practice, it's still very offensive to some. I work with people with disabilities, and I have seen a woman with mild intellectual disabilities cry after being called "retard". It really hits home for people with those disabilities. Please don't use this word.
Mentally retarded, not retarded. Still, if somebody has a mental disability that makes them process information at a pace slow enough that it can become debilitating, it's absolutely an accurate term. That's like saying nobody should say someone that is missing one leg is one-legged.
I'd like to add, autism isn't retarded totally. Most autistic people are retarded in some areas, usually social skills, but the also excel in others, the exact opposite. It's not a slur unless you make it one. Did you even follow my advice and look up the actual definition?
So... yeah, unless you want to get super technical, retarded is perfectly fine. Are people with only one leg going to force us to label them monopods instead of bipedal? I have a retarded monopod joke about slugs.
@funkmasterrex I have read the definition. But what's important here isn't what the word means, it's how you make people with disabilities feel. The word caries a lot of stigma, and is genuinely offensive. The impact of the words you use is more important than the definitions. A word does not need to have contempt in the definition to be wrong.
I have people I work with who spent their early adult life locked in an institution-not allowed to interact with "normal" people. And they left that environment to be faced with hatred and extreme stigma. And the most common word some of them heard to describe why they were unacceptable and unwanted was "retarded". I am not trying to fight a lifetime of stigma to try and make a word acceptable. Its wrong-and I would definitely lose my job if I tried.
Would you call the people locking them in an institution for their early adult life... mentally gifted? Would you even call that behavior normal? No... neither would I. Those people are... get this... retarded.
For fucks sake. Didn’t even read the thread. Between SJWs and their special snowflakes you guys will ruin the art of communication for everyone else. Sticks and stones you fucking children
@funkmasterrex Perhaps I might convince you to be mindful when speaking to or around people with cognitive disabilities, especially older people.
Due to changes in the way these disabilities are treated, people face better and better treatment over time. Even the individuals I've worked with you lived in the institution were treated a lot better while in the institution than people who were in the institution just a decade earlier were treated. I believe someday there will be almost no maltreatment of people with disabilities in the United States, but that day isn't today, and it's been much worse within the lifetime of many people with disabilities.
Due to changes in the way these disabilities are treated, people face better and better treatment over time. Even the individuals I've worked with you lived in the institution were treated a lot better while in the institution than people who were in the institution just a decade earlier were treated. I believe someday there will be almost no maltreatment of people with disabilities in the United States, but that day isn't today, and it's been much worse within the lifetime of many people with disabilities.
But then I realised that this argument could be turned onto me