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"Now, let's butcher each other's peasants again!"
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What word should I use?
Because I guarantee you that'll be a slur in five years. No one wants to be "dumber than most everyone else" but those people exist. And if you're "mentally retarded," that's probably "you."
Thanks for the comment, though. I can block this community before I'm banned!
'Retard' has had a rather unique journey as a clinical term through periods of great prejudice against the mentally disabled, before ending up as an insult, and once an insult, was widely used against the genuinely mentally disabled as a means of demeaning them, giving it a particularly bad history.
Don't be a fucking moron.
Well didn't moron use to be a medical term too? So you're doing the same thing here, hows moron different from retard?
Same with idiot.
People seem to have a habit of taking whatever term is used for individuals with mental disabilities and using them to hyperbolize their criticism of someone's decisions/behavior. This is insulting to the dignity of members of society so society begins to look at the term unfavorably and uses a new term to describe it's mentally challenged members. Then the cycle repeats itself.