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briandmyers  ·  3836 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "That's Retarded." Words and Offense.

You're telling me that where you're from, if you call someone a "retard", it's not considered insulting?

'Cause I just don't believe that. Even when "retarded" was acceptable and not insulting (and I am old enough to remember that), it was still never acceptable to use the term "retard" or "tard" as a noun. It's much less acceptable now of course, but it was never okay.