Fuck. Foiled again.

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I’m rolling dude! haha

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Yeah, because it’s hilarious and takes the edge out of the day. It’s funny when I’ve just spent 15 minutes trying to find something, but didn’t see it because it was up too high.

If everyone had to be considerate of every persons views, nobody would write anything. Nobody would be allowed to have opinions.

The world isn’t all sunshine and flowers, buttercup. I’ll continue to be imperfect, and use the words to describe what I want. If you want to get your blood pressure up, and get huffy about it, that’s your prerogative.

They stopped using that word because it wasn’t descriptive. The same reason they stopped diagnosing women as “hysterical”. That’s the cool thing about the sciences; they evolve and change over time to be more descriptive, not less.

And now, we use the word hysterical to describe certain things…kinda cool how that works, right? When I call something hysterical (extremely funny) - people don’t get offended and say I’m using a slur.

Or when someone is losing their shit, you say they’re acting hysterical. It’s become a descriptor.

It has nothing to do with empathy. This is upper-class college white girl shit, where people get offended on behalf of a class they don’t belong to and which the people who they are offended on behalf of don’t really give a shit.

You pretend to be offended so you can signal to others that you are virtuous.

“Retarded” isn’t a medical definition under IDC-11, so they aren’t retarded, as the medical definitions have changed.

Also Retarded has another standard definition – Being held back or stunted of which applies here.

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I don’t know about you, but calling someone less intelligent IS an insult. Doesn’t matter what you name it.

That’s the point of insults you know.

Nobody’s “associating” anything. Nobody who’s calling someone retarded has any thoughts in their head about people with the mental disorder. If you called them a downie, then you would probably have a point; as it’s specifically worded to relate to downs syndrome.

But “retard” has come to be an amplification of the word “idiot”. It’s like the words big, bigger, biggest.

It’s the “biggest” of “idiot”.

So if I’m gonna call someone an idiot, my levels of idiot are: Idiot, Dumb-ass, and Retard. I’m just calling them the word that corresponds to being a gargantuan idiot. You can’t use “gargantuan” because they don’t even know what the words mean; so you use retard.

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