Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24077689-20131217203712

Something that seems to elude you is the fact that it doesn't fucking matter. We've never been talking about academia. They can call it whatever the fuck they want, it doesn't effect this conversation in the slightest. We're talking about real world jargon. The common fucking vernacular used by regular joes. That vernacular just happens to be "retard". This conversation is so cyclical it's making my head spin. The fact is that it does matter, people still use it to refer negatively to people with "intellectual deficiencies", ergo it's an issue still. The term is far from defunct.

I do agree, that insta-ban isn't really the answer. But cencorship is a slippery slope.