(October 10, 2017 at 4:33 pm)Khemikal Wrote: The OP made it explicit ...in the first post, that these two retarded examples are -why- "we" dismiss claims of racism and bigotry....
You do realize that the politically correct term is "mentally challenged", don't you? Using the word retarded as a synonym for stupid is deeply offensive to some people, particularly me, since everyday I work with the mentally ill who struggle to overcome the stigma put on them by that kind of thoughtless talk. In all this time I have never meet a mentally challenged individual that played the victim or used their symptoms as an excuse for their personal failures - unlike students at elite schools whining about how oppressed they are or how unsafe they feel.