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Words like "stupid" and "retard" are as hurtful as racial epithets. The pain caused by these labels can last a lifetime. Amirite?

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The word "stupid" can sometimes be used tastefully, but the word "retarded" should not be used outside of the medical term.

@MusicIsAGift The word "stupid" can sometimes be used tastefully, but the word "retarded" should not be used outside of the...

You are right. Using stupid as a cuss, for example "this stupid computer keeps locking up." Is OK-ish. But saying "this retarded computer" makes the speaker look callow (in my mind.)

VicZincs avatar VicZinc Yeah You Are +6Reply
@VicZinc You are right. Using stupid as a cuss, for example "this stupid computer keeps locking up." Is OK-ish. But...

It's pathetic because I've seen more people get in trouble for saying "stupid" than "retarded." I mean, sure, "retarded" is a word used in the medical field, but it's also used as an insult and it's intended to have more sting than "stupid."

eldoritos avatar eldorito Yeah You Are 0Reply

I have trictotilamania and was required to take special ed classes for it in elementary school. Despite having no differences from every one else besides a bald patch on my head I was called a retard and a weirdo. I literally did not care. I was never hurt by it. I never thought twice of it. I had fine friends, and a fine school life. Am I missing something here?

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I wasn't allowed to say "shut up."

eldoritos avatar eldorito Yeah You Are +2Reply
@VicZinc Me too

I can beat all of you. I still can't say fart. Not in front of my mom at least.

B10ckH34ds avatar B10ckH34d Yeah You Are +6Reply
@eldorito What were you supposed to call it ?

Break wind, pass gas, poot (yes, really)

B10ckH34ds avatar B10ckH34d Yeah You Are -1Reply
@B10ckH34d Break wind, pass gas, poot (yes, really)

All women prefer to hear farts referred to as poots or toots.

eldoritos avatar eldorito Yeah You Are -1Reply

It's important to note that racial or intellectual insults should only ever affect you if they were used maliciously (As in Vic's case) and not jokingly, as they are used i normal conversation. If you let joking ones affect you, they may just be true.

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@B10ckH34d It's important to note that racial or intellectual insults should only ever affect you if they were used...

I don't think using any type of slur as a means of a joke makes any sense. If you assume that you can use a slur in a context that will automatically be recognized as "humor", then you are closed-minded.

@Shadi I don't think using any type of slur as a means of a joke makes any sense. If you assume that you can use a slur...

There's a difference between saying something jokingly and saying it as a joke. It just means casually. Like how friends can say things like "Hey you fucking bastard haven't seen you in so long!" and not actually mean fucking bastard.

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@Shadi So ironically? I guess I did not understand the context of your comment.

No. Ironically means something like counter intuitive. in the hipster definition, it means to do something not because you enjoy it but because you want to mock those who do. Similar to "Ooh, look at me, I'm __. I like to __,__ and I can _"

This just means not seriously, or not meaning it.

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@B10ckH34d No. Ironically means something like counter intuitive. in the hipster definition, it means to do something not...

Verbal irony is when one thing is said where the opposite is implied.

You understand that your friend is not a bastard, but you call him that anyway. That is irony by definition.

I got told I was stupid for wanting to do things or for liking things way too often.

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@ItsATrap I got told I was stupid for wanting to do things or for liking things way too often.

Having been labeled retarded by the state, placed in special education, and tormented by "normal" kids calling me “retard” has made me extra sensitive to this issue. I still cannot think about those events without choking up.
It was difficult for me to write this post and even harder to write this comment. I do not know what it feels like to be called racial slurs but if it feels anything like being called a “tard” then it borders on the unforgivable.

VicZincs avatar VicZinc Yeah You Are +18Reply
@ItsATrap I also just thought of 'freak'. That's bad one to be called too.

I was always called "weirdo." Some bitch threw a rock at me because I'm weird.

eldoritos avatar eldorito Yeah You Are 0Reply
@eldorito I was always called "weirdo." Some bitch threw a rock at me because I'm weird.

Damn rocks. I've had multiple thrown at me while being called four eyes.

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@ItsATrap Damn rocks. I've had multiple thrown at me while being called four eyes.

I had the same experience. Day care people didn't do anything about it, either.

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@ItsATrap Honestly, what do people have against seeing

I don't know, but apparently, adults didn't care either because the little shits would do so right in front of their parents and their parents didn't do shit.

eldoritos avatar eldorito Yeah You Are 0Reply

My dad would ask me rhetorical questions like, "what are you, stupid or something". Ahhh, good times.

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