To the headline: I don’t know.
Ask Rahm Emanuel.
It’s basic Alinksy — the Left constantly alters acceptable vocabulary and then accuses the opposition of using the “wrong” words and therefore being offensive. This tactic should be used against them.
Anyone who buys the phony outrage from the JACKASS party are RETARDS!
It’s the way it’s used, the context in which it’s used that many of us object to. Many people use the word to be insulting, that’s what’s offensive.
These buttwipes invented PC and there feet need to be held to the fire for not obeying their own asinine ‘rules’
for everyone else be my guest...
Retarded means “slowed.” It came to mean “those with low mental development” when “mongoloid idiot” (yes, said term was once common) became too offensive. Of course, over the years, kids started using the term “retarded” to mean “stupid”, so it became offensive. Now of course, the same thing is happening to the term “mentally challenged.”
Any gardener worth his salt will try to retard the growth of weeds in his garden.
The problem is not with the word, but with the gratuitous contempt and lack of respect it implies, when used as an insult.
Answer: It is not the word itself, but the ability to control the use of a word that is at issue.
Gotta agree.
Love Sarah. But we gotta get over being offended to high heaven every time somebody utters a slip o’ the tongue.
For that matter, Biden’s and Reid’s gaffes. As well as Obama’s remark about Vegas.
I like seeing them squirm, inasmuch as they are practically the inventors of the invention of feigned offense. But really. What’s all the fuss?
I’d rather see a “Whoops.” And move on.
In any case. As we’ve seen from the very top of the administration, words don’t mean all that much, after all.
Getting so the only thing that means anything, politically as well as literally speaking, is a rumbling in the lower colon.
The word "retard" is a reminder to pilots to bring the thrust levers to idle during the landing maneuver, known as the "flare," just prior to touchdown. (computer voice announcement) -
PS - By the way, there is another theory that the word “retard’ is said by the airplane to pilots as an insult by a French airplane to Americans who fly it, but it’s conceivable our imaginations may be a tad too active. C’est la vie!
When the timing on my Oldsmobile was retarded, it over heated. That stopped after I got the timing advanced.
What is wrong is that it is offensive to retards when liberals who are lower on the intelligence scale are associated with them.
As an A-320 settles over a runway on landing the computer calls out,”Retard. Retard,” to let the pilot know to flair the aircraft so that the main gear touches down first.
It’s all those damned Frenchies fault.
He used the word retarded as a pejorative, and was rightly called on it.
To any Progressive, “retard” is probably used to described conservatives, much like teabaggers. I’m sure the terms are used routinely in their profane rants to each other about you-know-who. GWB was “stupid”, a “nazi”, etc. They are just ratcheting up the crude dialogue. I expect nothing less.
I like you Sarah, but I think it was kinda retarded for you to get upset about someone using the “r-word”. I don’t think Rahm meant to use it in an insulting manner.
Speak about twisted values: why the anger over the “r-word”, yet not a peep over the “f-word”? Not that either one bothers me, but I’m just asking.