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• kiagam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you know this is the internet and you are allowed to type whatever you want, right? let me show you: “retarded”

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  • wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “whatever you want”… they wanted to be a respectful person.

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    • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is saying the word retarded without calling some it disrespectful? Is it now a trigger word? I’m genuinely wondering. Because when we were growing up we used the word EVERYWHERE. It was as common as saying “fricken”

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      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a slur, that’s why. Some slurs are major slurs that are considered offensive even when it’s not referring to someone, and I think this is one of them. They’re often forbidden because of it, and a lot of people find it easier to follow universal rules than to check the rules of each place they post, because the universal rules will keep you in the clear 95% of the time. And even if not, it’s still respectable to not want to use slurs.

        And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term. That’s the way it goes, we have a word to insult people’s intelligence, doctors deal with patients who have a disorder causing that, they don’t want to use the mean word to refer to the patients, they come up with a new word for it, the word gets out, and then everyone makes it a new word to insult intelligence. Though this one seems to be taking a different track because it hit modern sensibilities, and at the same time I think doctors now know better than to come up with a new word for mental deficiencies.

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      • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We used LOTS of words then that are now not ok to use. Growing as individuals and groups is a good thing, being attentive to others is a good thing, understanding that you see no offence to a word where others do and changing that behaviour betters everyone.

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      • Gonkulator@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why did you say fricken and not fucking? You do the same thing you critcise all in the same sentence. Its like a singularity of stupid. We gots ourselves a real stable genius here fellas!

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People used to use the n-word all the time, so it must be perfectly OK to say!

        This is the exact same argument. It doesn’t work, right? Why would it here? Sure, there may be other reasons why it’s OK to say, but throw that argument out.

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      • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah you’re not supposed to even say “my son’s reading skills are somewhat retarded but we hope he can catch up to his peers”. Or “Progess on Trump’s border wall has been retarded for various reasons.”

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    • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “IDGI, this person has the option to be the worst version of themselves. Why dont they choose to do that?!? Also why does noone want to be around me? Could it be that marinating my brains in a writhing compost of clapbacks and dunks is desensitizing me to my own dehumanizing? No. Clearly this is because woke.”

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• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The word that airline computers hurl at their pilots just before landing

  Quite rude if you ask me

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I found a training thing that included the phrase “retard power” in an aviation context. The best part was the way it was enunciated. Not “ri-tard” like you do when it’s a verb, but long E ree-tard. I absolutely clipped it.

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    • HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might be surprised that your sprinkler system has a retard chamber. Also you can still order it under that name.

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t say either on twitch or you’ll get banned

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      chat is this real

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s hilarious. Is it still in use or say it differently now?

    I’m thinking about master>slave in tech. Or rapeseed became Canola. Or how we say Uranus differently.

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    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      afaik it is.

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  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Printers used to refer to the page separation rollers as retard rollers.

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• bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not everyone with learning disorders is retarded.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But, anon is

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