I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.

  • McScience@discuss.online
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    1 year ago

    Cringe. Recently learned that “the youths” have basically morphed the phrase into just meaning “anything bad”. Like, that word was so useful though to specifically mean “something that someone does which flies in the face of social norms to which they are oblivious, but which makes onlookers uncomfortable”. That word condensed a damn paragraph and I want it back