Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-10950063-20131215181349

TheOperator wrote: in my eyes a 'retard' is someone with a mental handicap. If you are referring to a retard as someone who just Is dumb your wrong. A retard wouldn't be able to know what your talking about. You're. You are. Not your. Don't talk about people's intelligence when you display your lack of it every 15 minutes.

And this is a really ignorant and horrifying sentiment. I've had a lot of interaction with the kind of kids people would call retarded. Most of them aren't eggs, they can understand what's going on and what people are saying. They're not drooling, lifeless sub-humans.

This is the kind of thing that is actually offensive. It's not the word, it's the idea behind a word. Retarded really just means that something has been slowed. It's that you think of the learning disabled in such a way that is offensive.

I don't care if people say "retarded," but when they have such a backwards way of thinking I have a problem. It's the same with any kind of prejudice or bashing.