• GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I get that we are both if a certain age but can you please consider not using terms related to retardation when you mean stupid?

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      1 year ago

      I feel like Americans online throw this word around a lot more than anyone else. It’s absolutely not an acceptable word to use here (UK) and I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone use it.

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        1 year ago

        In 2008 while railing against political correctness Sarah Palin, the dipshit republican vice presidential candidate, popularized the idea that it wasn’t ok to use retarded as an insult.

        Do brits still use spaz/spastic?

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          1 year ago

          I haven’t heard anyone use those words for many years, no doubt there’s still people that do though.

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        1 year ago

        It’s about being respectful. Using someone’s condition they can’t control as a descriptor is (at least in my opinion) disrespectful.

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          I mean, in a broad sense we can’t really control any aspect of ourselves. We live in a deterministic universe. The real reason to stop using ‘retard’ and related terms is because of how vilely they’ve been used in relatively recent history to denigrate people with genuine mental disabilities.