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Well would you look at that... (lemmy.today)
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[โ€“] 2 points 12 hours ago* (4 children)

Moron and Idiot were the original correlations. People adopted those words as insults and the medical community adopted new words, and then those words got used as insults, and then the medical community adopted new words........

And on and on and on. Moron equates you to someone with diminished capacity like someone with down syndrome, to use your example. So does Idiot, and Imbecile. As again they were medical terms turned into insults lol.

So like by all means hate Retarded as a word, but have some consistency.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 12 hours ago (3 children)

    The terms moron and idiot are still used on the test reports, but nobody nowawdays associates calling somebody an idiot/moron with a slur against the mentally challenged, but the R word is.

    Like under your argument we can still call people gay as a slur because it used to mean happy.

    We stopped calling people gay or R word in the early 90s dude.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Lmao, sorry, sorry. I just wasn't expecting to get told, wrongly, about history I lived through. Retard didn't fall out of favor until the 2010's, and gay as an insult only started wearing off towards the late 00's early 10's which is why you can still see it in media from the time.

    Not sure how old you are, but I found it very funny.

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