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mk · 2021 days ago · link · · parent · post: Large Majorities Dislike Political Correctness - The Atlantic
I use retarded and I am not sure that it’s bad. I don’t have any experience with people using it to insult mentally handicapped people, and if they did, I don’t see it as different than calling a mentally handicapped person stupid. Which is just plain awful. Retarded is a quality. If I say that an action or someone is retarded, I’m saying that it is stupid. I am calling that person stupid. That’s an accepted interpretation. At some point, the problem is someone’s disingenuous sensibilities, and conforming to them would be retarded.