Sorry guys, this one’s locked now. Y’all need to grow the fuck up.
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Fun fact! ‘Mong’ is an abbreviation of ‘mongoloid’, a term used as a slur for people with Down’s Syndrome. The fun part is that the reason for the term being used is quite clever! Those with Down’s Syndrome have a usually noticeable difference in their facial structure, with a wide, flatter face and smaller eyes. Features that are rarely found elsewhere, first discovered in natives of the country Mongolia!
damn I wonder which white guy discovered those features in the Mongol population, crazy that they all missed them
It’s okay if he uses that word, he has the pass. The ivermectin really set his IQ below Forest Gump levels.
flame retardant.
How could this word even be removed. Unlike the N word it actually has legitimate uses. I didn’t even know it was “bad” to say.
By not calling people that?
Yes agreed, I advanced or retard timing on an injector pump.
Wilfully ignorant.
They can describe themselves again. I suppose that could be considered cultural restoration?
Of course retards like Rogan and Trump like that word.
You see, the problem with that word is that people who want to keep it around really make me wanna use it.
I hate this guy almost as much as Asmond Gold. Who I fear is much more insidious going after young impressionable “gamers”
But I gotta give him some grace. He’s just trying to fill his “dad hole”
I swear, the videos this guy makes are some elevated art form we don’t even have a name for yet.
Asmond Gold sounds like the cheapest pack of cigarettes.
He is
I’d say he’s more like a dirty sandwich bag of loosely rolled trash tobacco found in a parking garage that you cannot be certain are free of rat turds…
Calling him a “pack” of cigarettes implies there is any level of organized thought or professionalism put in to it…
toe rogain just using the slur that describes himself perfectly
it’s what the ® stands for, ain’t it?
Honestly it was the politically correct word in the 80s, although it was simultaneously used as a slur. A lot of those people are still alive and just hate having to constantly change to new language.
Every time we come up with a technical term to describe people with medical impairments to their intelligence, people begin using it as an insult.
I guess here’s hoping “intellectually disabled” doesn’t catch on (hopefully too wordy).
There’s a name for it- euphemism treadmill
I knew a guy who used “delayed” as an insult after HR told him to stop calling people retards. It offended people just as much but wasn’t against the rules.
People will find a way.
I’ve had a bad habit of using the word and every time I do I feel like an asshole, attaching Rogans name to it is an excellent deterrent mnemonic device.
Just call them Rogans from now on
you might say it’s an excellent retardant in your impulse to say the word
You could say that, but the goal is NOT to demonstrate being a worthless sack of dogshit who deserves a public hanging.
Well in that case I hope those public hangings will be swift and not retarded by any mishaps.
Edgelorde
Lol, I’ll never understand these people. The word “retard” was never gone. At no point was it illegal or impossible to say it, similar to any other word. The worst consequence for saying something that’s bound to piss people off is just that, pissed off people. You never faced jail time and I can’t think of anyone “canceled” for it.
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They want to drop the hard R with zero blowback.
Unfortunately for them they don’t get to control how others feel about it. They’re free to say it at any time though. All the redneck cowards I live near use it all the time, when no black people are around.
Racists and cowards. Lovely.
They’re usually one and the same. You don’t come to hate entire races of people out of logical thinking.
You should hear the ways they justify it when pressed. “You don’t have to be black to be a …”, “not all black folks are one, but this one is.”, “why do you care, you’re not black.”, etc.
Ain’t no-one calling me ginger and getting away with it!
Unless they have a tinge of the ginge in their fringe.
We all know they have no souls. It’s not like they’re real people anyways.
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The word “re----” was
The gusp I gasped was so intense that I broke the pearls I was clutching.
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This man is nearly sixty years old
Idiot! Imbecile! Moron!!
What’s interesting about those is that they were originally medical terms (which I’m guessing @lemmy689@lemmy.sdf.org knows). But, for those who don’t:
Moron was coined by a psychologist in 1910. He tried to make it fancy by using an ancient greek word “moros” which meant “dull”. It wasn’t an insult, it was meant to be a clinical term “used to describe a person with a mental age in adulthood of between 7 and 10 on the Binet scale.”
Imbecile “originally referred to people of the second order in a former and discarded classification of intellectual disability, with a mental age of three to seven years and an IQ of 25–50”.
Idiot “was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less”.
Then they became used in popular culture just to insult someone or describe someone who was stupid. Even their order changed. I’d say “Idiot” is the least insulting now, but used to be considered the most developmentally challenged.
In any case, “retard” also started as a clinical term, actually meant to replace idiot, imbecile and moron because they had become too widely used by the public and seen as insulting. Handicapped and disabled replaced retard when it was seen as too insulting. Then things moved on to “differently abled” or “challenged”. It’s been called the euphemism treadmill.
In the end, saying “retarded” was never illegal, at least in the US. It was just seen as crude. That hasn’t changed. It’s just that people who worried that being seen as crude might hold them back no longer think they have to worry.
They’re talked about in this film
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupidity_(film)
Stupidity is a 2003 Canadian satirical documentary film directed by Albert Nerenberg
I think theres a copy on youtube.
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They’re obsolete in original meaning. I came across these words in the film Stupidity. It’s a bit dated, from 2003. I think there is a copy on youtube.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupidity_(film)
The film questions “why stupidity is such a slippery concept to grasp and why so few people are talking about it.”
