Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24077689-20131217191219

The Bitter Cold wrote: Silverspots wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but how can calling something retarded not be seen as an insult? An insult to what? The point is that I'm not insulting anyone. What silverspots is getting at is that it doesn't matter if you're directly insulting someone, what matters if you're using the term. You're using the term in a derogatory, negative fashion. Like I said earlier, you can't make this mutually exclusive, you can't have one without the other. It's gonna be offensive regardless of your intentions or whatever context you try to put it is because of the fact that you're using the word, which refers directly to those with mental handicaps, in a derogatory manner.