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In Which Glenn Greenwald Smears Me by Citing a Faked Graphic at a Far Right Hate Site

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Blind Frog Belly White4/16/2014 5:38:50 pm PDT

re: #366 goddamnedfrank

I feel genuine empathy for those people who are deeply offended by use of the term retarded as a casual adjective. But fuck man, life’s rough all around, and this is english, not retardese.

The weird thing about the word ‘retarded’ and its various versions, like ‘libtard’, ‘fucktard’, etc., is that yes, back when ‘retarded’ was the proper term to call the developmentally disabled, it WAS really offensive to call someone that as a term of derogation - by using ‘retarded’ as an insult you were insulting those who actually were retarded.

Now that it’s NOT the proper term, is it still offensive? ‘Moron’ used to be the proper term for certain lower levels of intelligence, but we stopped using that, so now nobody says, ‘it’s offensive to morons to call people aren’t morons morons!’

Dunno, man, it’s hard to keep up.