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In reply to the discussion: (Florida) Activists want state to end use of word 'retard' [View all]BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)25. What you say is true. Sometimes I piss off people and don't have a clue what the hell is going on.
Like crawling through reality trying not to step on fragile eggs.
One persons perception of a word is miles apart from what you would think...
Being a Physicist, people ask me : Do you have the answers??
I tell them: Fuck, I don't even know most of the questions.
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Political correctness is a political tactic to make out someone as a "the bad guy".
valerief
Feb 2013
#21
OK really I even have to hear complaints about PC on a LIBERAL message board? n/t
alp227
Feb 2013
#33
The PC people (people who can afford mass media) decide the connotation, per their
valerief
Feb 2013
#42
I've used the word to denote somebody is retarded. It was classless of me and cruel...
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#3
Yes, but you can still call someone stupid, even though there are stupid people in the world
valerief
Feb 2013
#22
What you say is true. Sometimes I piss off people and don't have a clue what the hell is going on.
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#25
Give it time and Cognitive Disability will go the way of other terms Retarded, Imbecile, Moron.
gordianot
Feb 2013
#12
It will probably happen at some point someone will object as for me I accept the term "moran".
gordianot
Feb 2013
#31
I have also heard the terms "lids" "mers" "bumper" and "ADD's" several others.
gordianot
Feb 2013
#24
the words, "Idiot" and "Moron" were originally medical terms for different gradations
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2013
#43