Unpopular Opinion

Society likes to keep change managable, so it retards progress.

No liberal person I know accepts this behavior. I think this post is yet another attack on liberals following the right's playbook.

If you have an issue with a word then you should suggest an alternative.

OP, I just gotta say, I really agree with you, and I find it really disgusting the amount of people in this thread trying to renormalize it or argue that it's not problematic. This thread has been one of, if not the, most frustrating threads here over the past two years. Like I'm genuinely feeling gaslit by some of these comments. Do people not remember the voice people would use? Do people not remember the motions people would do? Those weren't just a mild way to call someone stupid. It was always ableist and still is today. Maybe in five to ten years I'll feel differently, like language really has moved on, but it doesn't feel like that's what's happening. It feels like people just being more comfortable being edgy.

I agree with you. Like I told a family member who made all the same arguments the people in these comments are making: "I am not trying to tell you what you can and cannot say. I'm telling you that if I hear you use language like that, I will respect you less and I will talk to you less or not at all. " We don't talk much anymore, and thats fine.

I thought it was widely accepted that you shouldn't use this word outside of, like, quoting old medical diagnosis from when the word was used in that context. It is not an okay insult.

Maybe I just hang out with nicer people.

People who are literally retarded are not the ones reading this post, or surfing the internet in general. People who are literally retarded can't read.

"bUt Im NeurOdiVERgent!"

Shut the fuck up. We're not talking about you. Lemmy seems to think they're all special mental cases. No, everything I see on here about ADHD and autism is mostly normal human foibles. My daughter is both, a little strange to me, nothing crazy, I can still relate to most of her "issues". I understand she sees the world differently than me, I try to adjust for that.

Growing up and navigating the most complex society we've ever faced, and didn't evolve for, can be quite a challenge. Suck it up buttercup. Recognize your strengths, recognize your weaknesses, don't be hurt by fucking words. If being called names breaks your spine, well, you're not going to do well on this planet.

The whole thing is made up hate by people who had their feelings hurt being called retarded in school. It's a 4th-grade insult that snowflakes have decided is now a "seriously harmful" term. I've been called the dreaded "F" word 1,000 times, so what? Didn't turn me gay or even hurt my fee fees.

In 5-years "stupid" will be outlawed. There will be a YouTube video of some teen crying their eyes out, relating how being called stupid ruined their whole life and now they have to kill themselves. "Idiot" will be banned by 2027. Any words that could possibly be understood as negative adjectives describing a human being will be verboten by 2030.

Bless your heart!

Not at all

My brother has a mental disability. Not his fault, doctors fucked up ab operation when he was a baby and he came out severely damaged. He has the intellectual level do about a 13 year old, but he mostly lives independently, he got his drivers license in a country where many people with full brain capacities cannot. Doctors told my mom after the operation to just dump him in some institution, because he'd never even talk. She told them to go fuck themselves.

I'm fucking proud of him (and my mom), because with severe limitations he really got himself ahead. I see him as a fucking genius.

Then there are retards like Elon musk who do have a full brain with full abilities but somehow fail to even surpass what my brother wasn't supposed to be able to do, yet by brother does it, these people do

I call people removed when they are supposed to be better but just chose to be lazy or not caring or just behave removed.

Is an insult against people who are supposed to be smart but behave like they have a mental disability, and I stand by that.

If you feel offended, the that is on you.

You're right technically but things have regression so far back were at 2016 levels of slurs the nword is making a comeback. Until thats sorted you have zero chance getting people to care about retard.

I agree. Often there is a better insult to use against someone who is being idiotic that’s not also disparaging to an unrelated group.

Does that mean if I'm autistic I get an R- word pass?

There is reason to use it. It fits me well sometimes.

Tbh "r-tarded" is much better anyway it's funny as hell

My uncles were retarded due to Rh incompatability before they understood about Rh Factor. They called themselves retarded, our family called them that, it doesn't sound wrong or deragotory to me.