Grey area indeed. The tigerbelly episode I quoted made a fair point, isnt equality when you can crack jokes about everybody instead of nobody as the pc dictates today? Its the total disregard for the context of which something was said this phrase xyz is a no-go no matter what, point being you can say some pretty retarded shit without being racist if the context is right.
Do "retarded" people know they are "retarded"? I mean would they take offense? Would they *get it*? Who is getting offended here.
It might not in the medical dictionary you are referencing here(?) but it sure does in the context of everyday slang "Are you fucking retarded dude?" - when your friend messes something up big time.Most would; retarded doesn't mean stupid.
It might not in the medical dictionary you are referencing here(?) but it sure does in the context of everyday slang "Are you fucking retarded dude?" - when your friend messes something up big time.
Yea, guess you are right, cause they would.I was referring to your question about a retarded person being offended. edited for clarity.
Yea, guess you are right, cause they would.
Eh, world is changing so must we.
For some reason this conversation reminded me of the minimally exceptional part of Carlin Soft Language bit.
Burn!I love it. "The 71%' Reanderthals"
Also. Here is how you shut one of them down :
But I thought she was the most ineffective press secretary in recent memory? Someone should alert the president about the quality of his staff 😉🤣I love it. "The 71%' Reanderthals"
Also. Here is how you shut one of them down :
As odds would have it I was just listening to this where they, among other things, talk about the r word
Ill have to say I didnt get that memo either... but aight! What we use in place? Moron?
Grey area indeed. The tigerbelly episode I quoted made a fair point, isnt equality when you can crack jokes about everybody instead of nobody as the pc dictates today? Its the total disregard for the context of which something was said this phrase xyz is a no-go no matter what, point being you can say some pretty retarded shit without being racist if the context is right.
Do "retarded" people know they are "retarded"? I mean would they take offense? Would they *get it*? Who is getting offended here.
I always wince when I read/hear that word used as an insult. But I think it might just come down to how recently a word has made the transition, from neutral, clinical term, to epithet. It's because that word has only made that shift during my own lifetime that I don't like hearing it that way. But I think 'idiot' 'moron' 'imbecile' were all once-upon-a-time considered technical terms, it's just that they transitioned so long ago that they've lost that association for me.
Maybe if you rule out every such term there's not much left to use to express contempt or negative judgement. And, yes, I've encountered people with mental disabilities who didn't like the r-word (in fact one such individual pre-emptively explained they hoped nobody would use it, before anybody actually had said any such thing, as they were accustomed to being abused with that word).
Not long ago I heard a repeat of an only-moderately-old radio documentary where they referred to a mentally-disabled musician as "retarded" and the introduction had to explain that at the time it was seen as a polite technical term not an insult, hearing it now it sounded very incongruous given the formal tone of the narrator using that word.
It USED to be acceptable. The term mentally retarded described people who were not able to advance due to a mental or medical condition affecting learning or cognitive skills. It meant slow to learn or unable to learn or do things.
But as with so many other terms of the 40s, 50s or earlier, it became abused as an insult.
woke
cancel culture
When my friend does something utterly **** that is actually sentences forming in my thoughts .. and sometimes they leave my mouth. (and yea, its a perfectly health relation ship). What thought process am I gonna substitute this with ...
and how long will it take to unwind from all the other stuff that has been hard pressed into my neural net, in this context, over the last xx years?
Good for you, however, I suggest, however, that not everybody is made from the same mold as you are.Ten minutes or less.
It USED to be acceptable. The term mentally retarded described people who were not able to advance due to a mental or medical condition affecting learning or cognitive skills. It meant slow to learn or unable to learn or do things.
But as with so many other terms of the 40s, 50s or earlier, it became abused as an insult.
Neanderthal, my new code word for dumb republicans and as Joe put it, especially for dumb republican governors. Neanderthal, what better a term? And you can tell it really pisses them off because all that Fox is talking about is OMG, BIDEN CALLED SOMEONE "NEANDERTHAL". You can always tell when you hit a republican right in the balls, they react just like this followed by Fox news. Thing is.... they KNOW it is true. They know that they are neanderthal's. Mirrors don't lie....
It'll be announced "in two weeks".
Hopefully republicans can also go extinct like the neanderthals did.
Neanderthal
Yes, they had something going for them when survival depended on physical attributes more than intellectual attributes. It's no wonder they'd like to turn our planet into a hostile wasteland again so they can once again compete.They had something going for them.
Rethinking Neanderthals
Research suggests they fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?www.smithsonianmag.com
“They were believed to be scavengers who made primitive tools and were incapable of language or symbolic thought.”Now, he says, researchers believe that Neanderthals “were highly intelligent, able to adapt to a wide variety of ecologicalzones, and capable of developing highly functional tools to help them do so. They were quite accomplished.”
“They lived 250,000 years or more in the harshest climates experienced by primates, not just humans.” In contrast, we modern humans have only been around for 100,000 years or so and moved into colder, temperate regions only in the past 40,000 years.
Grey area indeed. The tigerbelly episode I quoted made a fair point, isnt equality when you can crack jokes about everybody instead of nobody as the pc dictates today? Its the total disregard for the context of which something was said this phrase xyz is a no-go no matter what, point being you can say some pretty retarded shit without being racist if the context is right.
Do "retarded" people know they are "retarded"? I mean would they take offense? Would they *get it*? Who is getting offended here.
I love it. "The 71%' Reanderthals"
Also. Here is how you shut one of them down :
She doesnt give off the vibe as someone who kicks you when you are down... so probably notthink she's ever going to circle back on that one to that reporter?