Popular ABQ Pastry Shop Joins Campaign to Eradicate Derogatory Word

KOB4 ^ | March 02, 2018

[9422WMR]

Now you’ve done it:
With a rebel yell
She cried more more more!

[Palio di Siena]

He/she is retarded.
That’s retarded.
Which do they want to eliminate.
The noun or the verb - or is it an adverb?
I don’t know.
How about f***tard. That’s what I call my dog some times.

[Fresh Wind]

[TalBlack]

I thought that they had long since replaced ‘retard’ with some new more “growthful” word. So it’s perfectly fine to say retard since it no longer means what it meant. You know...or somthing...

[Flick Lives]

Wipe out.

Word holocaust.

[lizma2]

LOL!

Have said to my kids several times when they were growing up “Why did you decide to have an IQ of a potato?”

I was asked that growing up. (Many times!) It’s a family tradition.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having worked often with Downs Syndrome patients during my decades-long career in health care I would never use the word "retard" to describe any person with a brain disorder that affects intellectual capacity.

However,I have no problem calling Bella Pelosi a retard...among other things.

[Bigg Red]

Yes, like “idiot”, “moron”, “simpleton”, et cetera.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

that new word, too, will eventually also be considered pejorative.

When my daughter was little some female acquaintance of my wife's remarked that she was a "special" child, meaning exceptionally charming. My six year old daughter's reaction was to break out in tears, crying, "I'm not retarded."

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Racist?

[Jim Noble]

The goal is to promote inclusion and acceptance of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Drill down.

When you want "inclusion" of people who are ordinarily not included in some activity, what are you asking for?

When you want "acceptance" of people who are normally not accepted, or, more commonly, whose behavior is normally not accepted, what are you asking for?

[RealVirginia]

Republican?

[Ge0ffrey]

Retard!

Check out this MadTV video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSaAk9W3CY

[9YearLurker]

I am sorry, but “eradicating” a word just gives it extra power, and if it is an attempt to keep people from speaking of such conditions it is horribly totalitarian.

[bray]

Why don’t we just eliminate every word in the English language since someone will be offended by something?

[Fightin Whitey]

[xp38]

One step at a time....how about just banning the letter R then they will just be etards. Ooops wait a minute etads. :)

[rawcatslyentist]

What is a word compared to the heart that created it?

[bray]

That tie is retarded.

[dsrtsage]

The new PC term is “short bus with the magical candy windows”