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Feels like you’re cutting that a bit thin. In any case, my experience (and - probably - the context of my cultural upbringing) was that the word was used to bo
by germinalphrase 6y ago
Feels like you’re cutting that a bit thin.
In any case, my experience (and - probably - the context of my cultural upbringing) was that the word was used to both denigrate people with developmental disabilities and to degrade those who did not. This wasn’t calling someone a “loser”. This was using an immutable characteristic of someone’s personhood against them and attacking others by asserting a resemblance.
- Person5478 6y agoIn the US calling someone a retard is considered very tame compared to calling them a nigger or spic, etc. Yes, calling someone a retard isn't polite, but it's nowhere near the level of offense of the other words. Not all insults are created equal and that was the point the other poster was making. Putting it in the same category as the other words is a bit much. It's like comparing Harvey Weinstein with that drunk asshole who slapped the waitress on the ass. Neither are good, but they also don't deserve to be described as equivalent.