I called a disabled person a retard

I wouldn't sweat it.She's probably conquered far greater obstacles in life than some off the cuff remark from you.If an able bodied person had been taking that long, she would have probably called them retards.

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

To be honest I think using the term "retard" reflects much more poorly on the person using the word than the person it's aimed at. It is offensive in my opinion but it's also such a "trailer trash" lazy use of a word. When I hear it I generally find myself thinking " there goes someone with a limited vocabulary who doesn't think much about what they're saying" and I presume the person is well...stupid.

Nonsense.The use of one particular word cannot be an indicator of the breadth of one's vocabulary.

I use the word regularly and I've thought a great deal on where and when to deploy it.

The lazy speaking trailer trash you mentioned would be the very sort I would use the word on liberally.Sure I could whip up a ribrattling cocktail of witty disparagement, in the Wilde vein, but that would be like playing Beethovens 5th for your lawnmower, an utter waste of time.

Retard is a word that retards can comprehend, which makes it the most optimally suited word for the purpose of reminding the cretinous masses, that, despite having watched every soap opera and reality show on tv,they are mentally derelict commonalities that have nothing to contribute to a decent civilised intelligent society and thus can have no place within.

I have many many fine insults for those possessing the intellectual facilities to understand them.I will insult you in Sonnet form if you like.

But I refuse to waste a single letter or word more than is necessary to encapsulate my disgust for retards.That'd be fkin retarded like!

mariano rivera wrote: »

IMHO

Retard is a derogatory term to describe people with disabilities

They find it HIGHLY offensive

The use of the word 'Retard' is vile

It is akin to calling someone a n****r !

And the word 'idiot', is that ok to use by your standards?

WindSock wrote: »

And the word 'idiot', is that ok to use by your standards?

Idiot is actually a 'medical/psychiatric' denotation.As is imbecile,cretin,moron.

Retard was adopted as a blanket term for these varying classifications of mental disability, as the aforementioned terms had become pejorative in their common use.

The term retard has by now been wholly rejected by the mentally impaired community and their representatives.They see it as inapplicable by virtue of it's accepted and original dictionary definition.

The medical establishment borrowed the R word without considering it fully.

It means to be slow or delayed or as in French, "en retard"- to be late.At best this would vaguely describe one probable symptom of mental impairment.It does not indicate the cause or mechanics of the phenomenon, rather, a negative effect.It's unscientific and unfortunate.

So the word has lost its 'psychiatric and medical' connotations.According to the Bosman Ruling, retard is now a freeagent and can be used to describe things that are actually retarded, as opposed to using it to misclassify people with a mental or physical impairment.

starbelgrade wrote: »

So what do you call a handicapped retard now?

Windowlicker?

so what shes disabled, its not your fault, also she was still driving badly, also not your fault.
(maybe attributed to her disability but i know alot of "normal people" who drive bad)

your logic is flawed
I called him a scabby Jew, but, if I knew he was Jewish I wouldnt of said it

Has anyone seen Will Smith's new film, "I, Retard"?