Honestly this is what I trip up on more these days. "Thanks guys" is a default.
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In 2018, How Are People Still Using the R-Word?
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You're surprised that people are still using that word after four years of not being called out on it? If you don't want to hear it, tell them, not us.
Same here. That said, there's a big difference between calling something bad retarded, and between calling someone dumb a retard.
Really?
Ableist bullshit is alive and well unfortunately. A lot of people don't even understand that the words they use are hurtful to people with disabilities. And that goes for mental and physical disabilities. I still sometimes hear people call disabled folks "cripples" and it makes my blood boil.
Everyone I knew used retard and retarded as insults while I was growing up, I don't anymore but I do think it's kind of a pointless battle.
As others have pointed out it seems to be an endless cycle of new words being used to describe the same or similar things (idiot, moron, imbecile, etc) and then those words get co-opted in to insults. Retarded has already had some successors (special is used the same way) and I think it's possible in time retarded will be just as ignored as calling someone an idiot is today, if something new takes over from it completely.
Not sure how you solve that without making people not care about intellect in any capacity, which is a horrible nest of new problems imo.
As others have pointed out it seems to be an endless cycle of new words being used to describe the same or similar things (idiot, moron, imbecile, etc) and then those words get co-opted in to insults. Retarded has already had some successors (special is used the same way) and I think it's possible in time retarded will be just as ignored as calling someone an idiot is today, if something new takes over from it completely.
Not sure how you solve that without making people not care about intellect in any capacity, which is a horrible nest of new problems imo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the outside-perspective as being someone who hasn't lived all their life in an English speaking country, it feels like the "R" word only gained infamity as a horrible slur relatively late in the game?
I mean, I remember even games still using the word, or variations of it for "to slow something down" or "something being slow" as late as... actually last year? Unless FFXII changed something about its translation.
As others also said, it just doesn't get as much backlash as racism, homophobia and sexism, because I feel that it isn't actually shunned enough to be completely registered as a slur in many peoples' minds. That's why, when someone in my FC or in Forums/Groups I manage ends up using the word, I tend to take them aside, and explain why that word not good, and should not be used in such a fashion. I deal with the first offense for that word differently than I deal with racism, homophobia and sexism. Maybe that makes me part of the problem, but I feel like lack of context has made it more "acceptable" to be used.
I mean, I remember even games still using the word, or variations of it for "to slow something down" or "something being slow" as late as... actually last year? Unless FFXII changed something about its translation.
As others also said, it just doesn't get as much backlash as racism, homophobia and sexism, because I feel that it isn't actually shunned enough to be completely registered as a slur in many peoples' minds. That's why, when someone in my FC or in Forums/Groups I manage ends up using the word, I tend to take them aside, and explain why that word not good, and should not be used in such a fashion. I deal with the first offense for that word differently than I deal with racism, homophobia and sexism. Maybe that makes me part of the problem, but I feel like lack of context has made it more "acceptable" to be used.
Yeah me too. I spent the first 30 years of my life not even thinking twice about it, everyone says it where I'm from. I've moved to the south so I have picked up y'all but it still doesn't feel natural but I'm trying to do better.
I'm confident in my inability to adapt to newer cultural evolutions because enough ppl will that I will not make a difference.
i'd imagine that "autistic" is pretty much the line. The R word has always been the one word that can be easily attached to the mentally challenged (let alone how damaging the word sounds which is probably why it became popular...because humans need to become crueler while still maintaining their self-righteousness). Man, I thought the R word was part of the bully's handbook going by how those assholes used it to insult others during my time at middle-school.
It really doesn't help when a friend of mine was called "autistic" by a Twitch streamer not to long ago.
Yeah, ableist pricks still use it. Heard it fired against me for years in high school (I'm visually impaired, so needed some extra help).
How cute to see people showing their ass in this thread.
How cute to see people showing their ass in this thread.
Each of you can get fucked. And using the r-word is so important to you that you "can't wait"?
I remember as a kid making a conscious attempt to stop saying it since I had heard how it was offensive but all these years later it pretty much has not change in the normal lexicon like other offensive terms. It's a word that a lot of people just don't think is all that offensive, so for me personally I don't like to use it, but if I see someone say it, it's not like I'm thinking, "wow, how could he say something so we all agree is a horrible thing to say?". Maybe in 2 years that 'r-world' will get there but right now, for a shit ton of people, it's no different than saying something is dumb or stupid.
For the record, using this word in a derogatory manner is not okay here. We allowed some leniency to foster discussion until now, but further defense of derogatory language will not be tolerated.
The mentally handicapped cannot defend themselves properly in terms of context of words used to describe them. Using their condition as a slur or insult is pretty shitty, and while I grew up around the word and used it in my teenage days, I've moved past it. There are better words to get your point across.
Well if you should be happy because that's exactly what's happening across the world right now, and has anti-intellectualism has been an ongoing feature of US society for over a century.
Its a mean ass word, and makes you sound like a bonehead, but I don't see how idiot, stupid, moron, are much better.