All that and they’ve never met in person.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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"These fucking retards you and I respectively lead want to stab each other again but we can't do shit about societal momentum. Soz bro."
For future reference, 'retard' is not kosher anymore. I grew up in the era when we were all using it too, so I get the habit, but please avoid the term in this community in the future.
What word should I use?
Because I guarantee you that'll be a slur in five years. No one wants to be "dumber than most everyone else" but those people exist. And if you're "mentally retarded," that's probably "you."
Thanks for the comment, though. I can block this community before I'm banned!
Because I guarantee you that’ll be a slur in five years.
'Retard' has had a rather unique journey as a clinical term through periods of great prejudice against the mentally disabled, before ending up as an insult, and once an insult, was widely used against the genuinely mentally disabled as a means of demeaning them, giving it a particularly bad history.
Don't be a fucking moron.
Well didn't moron use to be a medical term too? So you're doing the same thing here, hows moron different from retard?
Was it used to demean people to the same extent?
Yes, if you were rated below a certain iq, you were classified as a moron or an imbecile, both medical terms of the time which became derogatory words. It does not really make a difference if you use moron, imbecile, retard or psycho. You insult somebody by implying some kind of disability, which is now widely regarded as offensive. So i think it is really kind of funny when somebody gets chastised by doing the very same thing in the same post. Some self-reflection might be in order.
Well didn’t moron use to be a medical term too? So you’re doing the same thing here, hows moron different from retard?
Do I have to explain to you how language works? Terms develop connotations over time. Usage makes some into slurs. This isn't complex. This is how every fucking slur comes about. Jesus H. Christ.
Moron is a slur against precisely the same people retard is.
Retard was literally the word that replaced moron in medical language and has all the same connotations.
You have proven his point to perfection.
Wow. What an amazing point he has, that... [checks notes] connotations change with time?
His point that whatever term retard is replaced with in the lexicon will simply go on the treadmill of slurs just like moron did.
You are literally participating in the problem you tried to call out.
His point that whatever term retard is replaced with in the lexicon will simply go on the treadmill of slurs just like moron did.
Okay?
Like, I really don't know what the two of you aim to prove here by repeatedly drawing attention to the fact that connotations of words change with time. Yes, both in the past and the future. This is my shocked face.
The use of 'Retard' and its acceptability has changed due to the dual connotations it acquired (those connotations being, specifically, a derogatory insult, and the assertion of actual medical mental disability). It's no longer acceptable. That doesn't mean that every word which clinicians used or which schoolyard bullies used is now the equivalent of calling someone a 'retard'. 'Retard' has a very acute combination of connotations, which anyone who grew up around the term understands as different from terms like 'fool', 'idiot', or 'moron'.
Like, fuck's sake. How are you not grasping this?
You are literally participating in the problem you tried to call out.
... the problem of... not using a term widely agreed upon to be offensive in the modern day?
Don't be a fucking moron.
Exactly the same behaviour as saying don’t be a fucking retard. Either both are acceptable or neither is because they are synonymous, in meaning and historical context.
That you used one as a slur on the playground does not change this.
If you need this explained any further there is probably a c/explainlikeimfive around here somewhere.
Either both are acceptable or neither is because they are synonymous, in meaning and historical context.
Okay, you go out to your local NAACP meeting and started calling all the people there 'colored', or even better, 'negros', since that's synonymous in meaning and historical context to 'Black', I'm sure it'll go over well. Good to see that you still don't understand what 'connotation' means, and apparently are too lazy to look it up.
I have explained to you very clearly how the connotation is exactly the same for both words because they have the same root, usage and cultural meaning though acceptability has differed over time.
You fucking retard.
same root, usage and cultural meaning though acceptability has differed over time.
Yes, like 'colored' and 'Black'. Yet only a fucking moron would confuse the two as equally appropriate.
You literally are just repeatedly demonstrating that you don't understand connotation, and are utterly resistant to the most blatant and obvious examples of connotation possible. It's like your eyes pass over the comparison without even reading it, glossing over with the hope of, I don't know, showing off your ignorance on the internet? I mean, if you're going to get into an argument about literal semantics, you should probably at least understand the elementary-school stuff, lmao.
It is not a connotation you have issue with it is the social acceptability, and you're too much of a fucking retard to comprehend it no matter how it is spelt out.
Go back to roman posting you loser.
It is not a connotation you have issue with it is the social acceptability,
And why is it socially unacceptable?
Because of the connotations.
Thanks for playing. Try not being a moron next time.
Like, fuck, it's not every day I get into an argument with someone who literally spells out why they're wrong, lmao. That's some next-level obliviousness.
The connotations are the same and you haven't offered any fucking proof otherwise.
The social acceptability is different only because of how words fall in and out of favour in the lexicon you retard.
The connotations are the same and you haven’t offered any fucking proof otherwise.
The connotations are the same
The connotations are the same
You really are just gonna go out here and make this claim, huh? lol
The social acceptability is different only because of how words fall in and out of favour in the lexicon you retard.
... and why do words fall in and out of favor, sweetie?
It's FAR from unique.
Idiot, Imbecile, and (especially ironically) Moron all ran the same path.
The euphemism treadmill is neverending.
I agree that 'retard' crossed the line when it started being used as an insult against legitimately disabled people
I remember using it here and there when I was younger, with no malice behind the words. I stopped using it after I learned that it had started to be used in a derogatory sense (or maybe there never was a time when it wasn't)
Thing is, the term 'retardation' just means to be slowing down, in a literal sense. In medicine, the term used is 'mental retardation' when somebody's mental thought process is reducing, which is what people think they're saying when they just say 'retarded'
I would even go so far as to say, if you allow one use of the word, that these people who paraphrase medical terms in derogatory ways are 'retarded'
If you're going to be offensive, at least be creative. When you use these words, among some other like the n word, you're just telling me you're an asshole with zero mental aptitude
For example, I think the original commenter has the thought capacity of a chicken