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09-05-2014, 12:30 PM
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Re: Teenage Retard
Retard or retarded are abbreviations of old medical terms that were developed to replace even older medical terms such as idiot, imbecile, and moron. Political-correctness is trying to eliminate these words via the euphemism treadmill, but it is not incorrect to use these terms to describe the intellectually disabled. People still call bariatric people fat and/or obese without stigma. So if "fat" people are not the "o-word", why must we wholly abstain from any use of "retarded" for those who are so-afflicted? I'm not suggesting that we be assholes about it with those so-affected, but I'm also suggesting that self-righteous PC pricks calm the fuck down if it is used. "Retarded comes from the Latin retardare, "to make slow, delay, keep back, or hinder," so mental retardation meant the same as mentally delayed. The term was recorded in 1426 as a "fact or action of making slower in movement or time." The first record of retarded in relation to being mentally slow was in 1895. The term retarded was used to replace terms like idiot, moron, and imbecile because retarded was not then a derogatory term. By the 1960s, however, the term had taken on a partially derogatory meaning as well. The noun retard is particularly seen as pejorative; as of 2010, the Special Olympics, Best Buddies and over 100 other organizations are striving to eliminate the use of the "r-word" (analogous to the "n-word") in everyday conversation. The term mental retardation was a diagnostic term denoting the group of disconnected categories of mental functioning such as idiot, imbecile, and moron derived from early IQ tests, which acquired pejorative connotations in popular discourse. The term mental retardation acquired negative and shameful connotations over the last few decades due to the use of the words retarded and retard as insults. This may have contributed to its replacement with euphemisms such as mentally challenged or intellectually disabled. While developmental disability includes many other disorders, developmental disability and developmental delay (for people under the age of 18), are generally considered more polite terms than mental retardation." source |
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09-07-2014, 08:24 PM
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Re: Teenage Retard
Perhaps you should be more considerate of Oriental Criminal. Instead of calling him a heartless fuck, how about using the accepted term acardiac twin! |
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09-10-2014, 02:16 AM
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Re: Teenage Retard
Damn, that's fucked up. Both what happened to the poor lad and calling him a retard. This is why I will never get on a bike after a night out drinking. Good post nevertheless.
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