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		Activists want the state to stop saying "retarded," would prefer the much more politically correct "Floridian" (sun-sentinel.com)		28
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Snotnose		2013-02-25 10:07:55 AM

9 votes:

If a mentally challenged person is late is it still ok to call them tardy?

unlikely		2013-02-25 09:25:31 AM

9 votes:

I thought we'd all agreed "Palin-American" was the new PC term

traylor		2013-02-25 11:44:35 AM

3 votes:

I propose politics-tabians.

hej		2013-02-25 10:52:09 AM

3 votes:

If you rounded them all up and kept them in a giant underground kennel, this whole thing would immediately become a non issue.

offmymeds		2013-02-25 10:15:25 AM

3 votes:

Snotnose: If a mentally challenged person is late is it still ok to call them tardy?

No. The correct term would be "chronologically disabled".

Son of Thunder		2013-02-25 12:57:36 PM

2 votes:

That's so disabled.

traylor		2013-02-25 10:55:59 AM

2 votes:

Potato.

Earl of Chives		2013-02-25 10:45:14 AM

2 votes:

Deoan: Any time we use a word to describe a group of people, that word becomes associated with that group, and then becomes offensive. Retarded means slow, they are generally mentally slower, and so it becomes an apt descriptor. In 30 years the words "Special", "*insert race here-American", and "same-sex" will be offensive, because kids will start using them on the playground as insults. Can't we just, as a society, stop taking so much offense before our whole damn language is a blacklist?

Please, African-American List is the preferred nomenclature.

OhioUGrad		2013-02-25 10:15:42 AM

2 votes:

I've always just said republican.

GentlemanJ		2013-02-25 10:10:16 AM

2 votes:

"Euphemism is for the differently-brained."--George Carlin.

doubled99		2013-02-25 03:13:05 PM

1 votes:

I think "skullcrushed" would make a good term as well for those afflicted

royone		2013-02-25 02:39:18 PM

1 votes:

skullkrusher: royone: skullkrusher: People don't like to be called something so don't call them that? Revolutionary.

Dipshiat -- may I call you dipshiat? No? Ok -- Dipshiat: this isn't about calling them retarded, it's about using the word retarded metaphorically for people like you.

like calling a straight person a "f*ggot", right? I mean, you're not actually calling a gay person a "f*ggot" so it's cool. You're just using it as a stand in for something else totally unrelated to sexuality Who can be hurt by that then?

Grow up, boy.

Are you sexually attracted to straw men?

Frizbone		2013-02-25 02:01:09 PM

1 votes:

Son of Thunder		2013-02-25 01:35:06 PM

1 votes:

skullkrusher: Onkel Buck: skullkrusher: If you use the word "retard" as an insult and you're over the age of 12, you're probably an idiot.

You've been eating retard sammiches again?

only if they're sliced very thin

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And the tomatoes are ripe.

JesseL		2013-02-25 12:36:32 PM

1 votes:

boinkingbill		2013-02-25 12:31:25 PM

1 votes:

cptjeff: havocmike: I've got a feeling that in about 30 years, I'm going to be considered an asshole because I still call objects "gay" and "retarded", even when they're clearly not capable of being either.

Circle of life, I suppose.

Gay is offensive, because you're using a word for a sexual identity that the non-bigoted don't consider a negative in a negative sense. If you said, "that's so black" as an insult, you'd get the crap beat out of you, and rightfully so.

Retarded is different- lack of intelligence is an inherently negative thing. It's already a negative word, so it's not really offensive to use it in a pejorative sense. Yeah, sucks if you're actually medically retarded, but when you use the word as an insult, you are deliberately drawing a comparison to those people who have medically addled brains. The comparison is the important part, whatever you call the brain addled.

So I guess saying black holes are so black is going to get me beat up? That is so gay.

WGJ		2013-02-25 12:21:53 PM

1 votes:

So the Association for Retarded Citizens has a problem with the use of the word retard.

Meatybrain		2013-02-25 11:55:38 AM

1 votes:

Use "retard" around a PC activist and get an earful of coonty attitude.

Use "retard" around a retard and get a hug.

Which one is the idiot?

Onkel Buck		2013-02-25 11:48:15 AM

1 votes:

I just say Biden-esque, people know what Im trying to say.

rnatalie		2013-02-25 11:37:37 AM

1 votes:

We were already coerced into referring to the hillbillies as Appalachian-Americans.

Moonfisher		2013-02-25 11:36:54 AM

1 votes:

Autistic people aren't retarded. In fact, most of them are smarter than most of you.

Mega Steve		2013-02-25 11:20:57 AM

1 votes:

Hates ~~Gator fans~~ Floridians

flaminio		2013-02-25 11:04:43 AM

1 votes:

Fano		2013-02-25 10:59:31 AM

1 votes:

And hillbillies want to be called sons of the soil, but it ain't gonna happen.

Maggie_Luna		2013-02-25 10:56:38 AM

1 votes:

hej: If you rounded them all up and kept them in a giant underground kennel, this whole thing would immediately become a non issue.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. The usage of the word kennel here is demeaning to dogs, bub. Take it elsewhere withs ya.

vudukungfu		2013-02-25 10:30:47 AM

1 votes:

mattharvest: Handicapped: derives from the phrase "cap in hand"

citation?

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich		2013-02-25 10:21:29 AM

1 votes:

Watt Durden: How long before they have to strike the word disabled from the books because it has become a slur? Any word used for flappers and droolers is going to become a slur.

How dare you sir. They're not disabled - they're just differently-abled.