US Politics on Sidechat | No they’re not, because no one alive today remembers a time when they were predominantly understood to refer primarily to disabled people. I say this as someone with a cognitive disability

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US Politics 24w

No they’re not, because no one alive today remembers a time when they were predominantly understood to refer primarily to disabled people. I say this as someone with a cognitive disability

US Politics 24w

The terms st*pid, d*mb, imb*cile, m*ron, and idi*t are just as offensive and ableist as the term r*tard

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Anonymous 24w

Even r*tard I don’t find particularly offensive unless obviously used in said manner, I only censor because I don’t know yak mod policy on it

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Anonymous 24w

If we keep saying ret@rd it will be in the same boat. I bet many young people don’t even know it used to be used clinically

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