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This is like the 4th time I've seen "retard" used on Lemmy today, I thought we all stopped using that word in the 2000s. I also haven't heard "welfare queen" in a while either.
Poilievre isn't a good person, but we can target him and his political party with words that don't hit others in the crossfire.
I agree with you.
Retard was a widely used word before it was considered non-PC so people, like me still use the term literally and not in a way that denigrates mentally handicapped people. I don't use the term everywhere, just around my local friends who are like-minded.
Are you implying that retard is a class of people? Because I doubt whoever you're concerned about would raise their hand to identify as one.
The people I am concerned about are those like my sister with Downs.
"Retarded" stopped being used by the American government to refer to people with intellectual disabilities in the 2010s. Even though I am not American, our cultures are intertwined enough that what they do matters.
Again I doubt your sister would choose to identify with that word. Languages evolve, and you're clinging on to a meaning that was lost decades ago. It's a dead slur and it doesn't take a genius to recognize that it's not disparaging towards the intellectually disabled, but go ahead and clutch your pearls.