please stop saying retard?

Question

its not fair on the people who have disabilitys its not thier faults its no ones fault but people who are christian and say that rude word shoulkd be more than ashamed im not saying i can do anything about it but people get bullied with this word and makes them wish bad things would happen to them so please stop it isnt nice how would you feel if i knew you and you were disabled and i came up to u and called u a retard but this only goes for the people that say this. thanx 4 reading

lol my question is y do ppl say retards and to the people who answered this question not even without sytmpathy u deserve to go 2 hell and its not all the time i say that 2 ppl idk but anyway to allthe other ppl who answered with reason thanx

by the way aria t do you even get me i mean people use it to bully others wich arent even 'retarted' as u call it so it just isnt fair

by the way aria t do you even get me i mean people use it to bully others wich arent even 'retarted' as u call it so it just isnt fair

Answer 1

Touche, WiseOne - "Retardation" is a CLINICAL diagnosis. Sure, calling someone a retard just to be mean or rude is not cool. However, one who actually HAS the disability IS a retard, regardless of the unfortunate negative stigma that goes along with it. We can be politically correct all we want, however, the DSM even uses the word 'retarded'... go cry to them.

edit: excuse me; I should restate this in a way that 'lavender' understands better. Calling people who ARE retarded a "retard" is likely unoffensive in nature. Calling other people who are not retarded a "retard," as I said before, may be offensive to those who are retarded, but not necessarily to the person being called a retard. Understand what I was saying? However, for you to use a question's section to comment on the use of the word... everyone has to deal with their affiliated group being called descriminatory names - people who are gay hear others use the word "f*g," black people hear the n word used, jews hear all sorts of offensive slurs... the list goes on and on. We all deal with it - most of us do so in SILENCE.

Answer 2

Words and it's accompanying feeling offer that meaning.

If I call someone a retard, then it's a joke and maybe they are perfectly fine. Maybe they did something stupid or below average intelligence.

I wouldn't go up to a mentally disabled person and call them a ******* retard.

Stop being so sensitive and use the logic side of your brain processing, less on the "feeling" side.

Answer 3

Sometimes when people say things they don't know what the current politically correct slang is. Ten years ago people with disabilities were called retarded. Some older people still use this term. Try not to be so sensitive -in most cases there is no harm intended.
If you are referring to those who use the term to hurt, well just consider the source -obviously they are socially retarded :)

Answer 4

I understand your dilemma. This is how I look at it. There are the mentally retarded and that is extremely unfortunate, and then there are those that were born normal but chose to be a retard later. I encounter these every day. people that start trouble, whom are racist, just plain dumb, hateful and mean for everything and so on and so on.

Answer 5

To me there is a difference between retard, and special needs..

Your post is retarded in my opinion because you brought up religion in a post that has nothing to do with mentally disabled. So you are hindered from your own good judgment. .

A person with a mental disability would be special needs.

Answer 6

Retarded is not a bad word, it is merely descriptive. Calling someone "mentally challenged" or "cognatively disabled" is the same as calling them "mentally retarded". It is usually used as "mentally retarded", but slang has reduced it to a derogitory shortened "retard".
Use more punctuation. It is difficult to understand where one thought ends and another begins in your post.

Answer 7

Well, isn't calling out one religion on the same level as calling someone out with a disability? Both are a generalization, yes?

Answer 8

I don't like when that term is used. Although some that use the word are only misinformed on the ways and words of those with disabilities.

Answer 9

I think your right,I never make fun of others..its not nice and is a very immature thing to do,Im more into helping others then bullying people.
But I only use this word to the ones who insult me.

Answer 10

Because people who say that are lower than dirt and there scum bags I have mental problems. So who calls me a regard is lower than dirt and stupid them selfsselfs