(December 9, 2015 at 7:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote: How about using negative words like "retarded?" I'm perfectly comfortable using this word when I think someone/something is stupid, exactly because a retarded person is stupid. But then I have to listen to the outrage from my aunts, and how her special-needs students are "differently abled" and all that. Fine, let them help my daughter with her calculus homework, then. I don't like it when the simple reality of the human condition, and the words about it, take a backseat to a kind of condescending "support."
I don't personally advocate using words like "retarded" pejoratively.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
