10-13-2014, 07:28 AM
Well "retarded" can be used as slur. Then that's not cool.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinio....html?_r=0
http://www.r-word.org/r-word-not-acceptable-psa.aspx
Funny though I used the word probably into my 20's. I grew up with a cousin who had Down's Syndrome (literally, my aunt and cousins lived with us for a long while) and have been working in the field serving folks with developmental disabilities for over 20 years. But my sister and I would say "that's retarded" or the like when we were younger. I didn't stop using it until, after being promoted to Assistant Manager in the Group Home I'd been working in after a couple months, one of the folks who lived there responded to me (and I don't even remember what I said), a nice guy with some cognitive limitations, he said: "You're right Ron, that is retarded." Now I don't really use the word, even though I wasn't really ever using it as a derogatory term.
But yeah, it is a real word meaning "slow down or hinder" so it's all good!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinio....html?_r=0
http://www.r-word.org/r-word-not-acceptable-psa.aspx
Funny though I used the word probably into my 20's. I grew up with a cousin who had Down's Syndrome (literally, my aunt and cousins lived with us for a long while) and have been working in the field serving folks with developmental disabilities for over 20 years. But my sister and I would say "that's retarded" or the like when we were younger. I didn't stop using it until, after being promoted to Assistant Manager in the Group Home I'd been working in after a couple months, one of the folks who lived there responded to me (and I don't even remember what I said), a nice guy with some cognitive limitations, he said: "You're right Ron, that is retarded." Now I don't really use the word, even though I wasn't really ever using it as a derogatory term.
But yeah, it is a real word meaning "slow down or hinder" so it's all good!
