Retard

Trump isn’t a retard. He’s a psychopath.

I agree. Donald Trump and his entire family are a bunch of retards. It’s kind of like the word “cunt” (which ironically would describe the Trump family as well). It just slips out.

What is one to do?

It's not like retards are going to read it anyway

Retarded isn't used by medical professionals anymore. Just like moron, idiot, deranged and dumb which were also medical terms aren't used either. Most people aren't targeting mentally disabled people with the term retard. It's just stupid people who are willfully ignorant that the term is used against.

I recently upgraded my retard with the descriptor “weapons grade” retard. I too, am keeping it in my arsenal.

Except it's a knife through the heart when a developmentally delayed person hears it used against them. They often don't have the skills to let it roll off their back.

OP, that's exactly how I feel about the word "fag"! As I've said before, when i use the word, everyone knows I'm not talking about gay men but about men like Trump!

And if you don't see that, you're a fag!

I now have Up Syndrome!

Agree with R6.

Not to be a raging MARY, but it is quite cruel OP. Why use a word that makes the most vulnerable individuals feel terrible and targeted?

Whenever I see the word used on DL, which is surprisingly often, I recoil (MARY!).

When you were born you were a pretard, OP.

Troll on.

There is fire retardant, there is retarded development, but people are not "retards."

They are cunts. Look in a mirror if you are in doubt.

Obviously if I see somebody who is down with the syndrome I don’t use the word.

You left out imbecile, R4.

What about "mong"?

R12 Nice catch. I don't hear imbecile a lot anymore.

Anyone who uses the term “try harder” is a retard. I seriously hate that condescending fucking phrase.

I've retired retarded from my vocabulary. Even in my inner monologue, when I find myself thinking "Are you retarded?" I quickly correct "I mean... are you [italic] special [/italic]?"

People like to provoke and start fights they can't finish. "Try harder", "stay pressed", etc etc. Is that supposed to be an insult and make us feel any certain way? It certainly makes it harder to take them seriously.

I'm a big proponent of retard on DL.

I miss saying retard, but R6 and R9 are right. And it’s not that a someone with an intellectual impairment is going to overhear you, it’s their brother, sister, mom, dad, etc. Because you aren’t using it as a compliment.

You can say whatever you want so long as you’re prepared to deal realistically with the consequences.

DAT’S DA SUCK JOB!!

You’re all retards.

And I hope that really hits home, cunts.

Of course I'd never say it to or about someone who was medically disabled. But I'll say whatever words I want to say when I deem it appropriate. I get to decide that. And when I say Donald Trump is retarded, I will do so loudly.

[quote]When you were born you were a pretard, OP

When he dies, does he become a postard?

I had the idea that retard was actually a more modern and correct term for slow people, you know, just a little "delayed" on the intelligence department. They were definitely more offensive terms before. I'm not even sure how to refer to them now!

"Dumb" and "dummy" are ableist, as is "cunt". Cunts can't help being retards.

Just say "speshul," as in "All children in our magnet school is speshul.

I feel a very particular kind of pity for supposedly fully functioning adults who can’t stop clinging to childish, hurtful slurs.

Lots of white gay “progressives” here use “retard”. Go for it, OP.

Ironically, “slow” is being fast tracked back to the future.

I proudly still use retarded as an adjective (outside of work).

Bump

I’ve given it up, but it was so much fun to say with a Boston accent: Reh-TAAAH-did.

So many retards can't accept the parts they were born with.