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Why is "retard" offensive?
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marcus61



Joined: 06 Sep 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wasn't there a song called Mongoloid? ...Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid, happier than you and me...etc... Cool
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't find it very offensive. I think some people do because 20 or 30 years ago 'retarded' was the politically correct term for people with dysfunctionally low IQs.

I have two clinical retards in one of my middle school classes and a couple of borderlines in my other classes and I don't find the term offensive.

Does anyone know what is the politically correct term for retards these day? It seems they have to develope a new one every five years once the old one becomes a common insult.
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Boodleheimer



Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a buddy of mine was working at some sort of "winter special olympics". he was at the bottom of the slope while his friend was skiing with the special kids. i guess my buddy wasn't doing anything to help, so his friend yelled out "Dave, do something, man! don't just stand there like a retard!"
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Novernae



Joined: 02 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
I don't find it very offensive. I think some people do because 20 or 30 years ago 'retarded' was the politically correct term for people with dysfunctionally low IQs.

I have two clinical retards in one of my middle school classes and a couple of borderlines in my other classes and I don't find the term offensive.

Does anyone know what is the politically correct term for retards these day? It seems they have to develope a new one every five years once the old one becomes a common insult.


Retard has never been a clinical, nor has it ever been a PC term. From the beginning it was an insult. Retarded was clinical, but not retard in the same way that mental was never a clinical term; it was an offensive slang that came from mentally retarded.
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Guri Guy



Joined: 07 Sep 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Short for mongoloid...which was actually a clinical term for those with downs syndrome back in like the 50's.

"Mongoloid" is still used as a slur occasionally, but "mong" is not, I don't think.

I thnk Stewie on Family Guy calls people mongoloids once in a while.


Yeah, I kind of figured that is what it meant. I know the term Mongoloid but had never heard the slang Mong before.
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Hyeon Een



Joined: 24 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guri Guy wrote:
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Short for mongoloid...which was actually a clinical term for those with downs syndrome back in like the 50's.

"Mongoloid" is still used as a slur occasionally, but "mong" is not, I don't think.

I thnk Stewie on Family Guy calls people mongoloids once in a while.


Yeah, I kind of figured that is what it meant. I know the term Mongoloid but had never heard the slang Mong before.


The offensive word list was taken from a British newspaper, and the words were slang used in Britain. So they might not be familiar to any mongs, spastics or schizos from N. America. They were all words I was familiar with coming from the UK.

(They need to send the PC police over here to sort out the Korean dogs with all their "Mong mong mong"ing)

PS Did anyone watch "Spastics say 'No'" on OCN last night?
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djsmnc



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I say retard and retarted quite a bit. Along with schizo, psycho, and idiot.

I sometimes call gay men f*gs, lesbian women dy*es, servers waiters and waitresses, flight attendants stewards and stewardesses.

If that offends people, too bad for them. I don't play by unwritten rules.
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marcus61



Joined: 06 Sep 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Absolutely goddam right! People are too thin skinned when it comes to being PC... Especially the femo-nazis..

FUnny though that gays call themselves f*gs, lesbians call themselves dykes, people of color call themselves black, or the "n" word, people of other ethnic origins call themselves wogs etc, but it's not ok to do that if you're not in that group so called, because you are considered by them to be exercising some kind of white supremasist, anglo-saxon, protestant attitude traditionally seen in the white, male-dominant paradigm. And for god's sake don't call a woman a girl or a chick or a lady. That will upset the feminists...We'll all just have to shut up.
Do retards call themselves retards? How do they refer to their peers when their peer does something goofy? Do they call them a retard and really mean it?
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Guri Guy



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Q How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A That's not funny!!!
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Q How many re...

nevermind.
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ronnie



Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's retarded that people think retarded is retarded to use.

People need to lighten the hell up.

The OP has a very good point. All those words used, idiot, moron, etc.... are just as bad.
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I will wait for any of you to use nig*er to a black guy, or maybe gimp to somone who has no legs. I doubt it, they fight back, unlike mentally challenged people. This thread just makes me glad I wasn't raised by feral baboons, like some here.
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Guri Guy



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I will wait for any of you to use nig*er to a black guy, or maybe gimp to somone who has no legs. I doubt it, they fight back, unlike mentally challenged people. This thread just makes me glad I wasn't raised by feral baboons, like some here.


Exactly. It is easy to pick on targets that can't adequately fight back. People that like to use derogatory names need to "nut up or shut up"
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The point still remains.. Do I even Care?


Not in the slightest.

Would I call a black man a ni#ger? Of course not.

Would I call a special person a retard? Of course not.

Would I call Liaoggok a retard? absolutely.

Have I called him one? Nope.

Will I call Liiaelagook a retard? Not at all.

I can think of much better terms to refer to him as.


Crying moaning bleeding heart tear jerking liberal whiner comes to mind a long time before retard does.
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan The Chainsawman wrote:
The point still remains.. Do I even Care?


Not in the slightest.

Would I call a black man a ni#ger? Of course not.

Would I call a special person a retard? Of course not.

Would I call Liaoggok a retard? absolutely.

Have I called him one? Nope.

Will I call Liiaelagook a retard? Not at all.

I can think of much better terms to refer to him as.


Crying moaning bleeding heart tear jerking liberal whiner comes to mind a long time before retard does.


Dan, you are working on such a low level I can't even begin to respond to your inane posts.
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