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I don't think it can be reclaimed because it will always be used to demean or degrade by comparing the target to someone who is different and that difference should never be used as an insult

R word???

I think everyone should be r-worded. (Repentant)

Retarded? Are you serious?

R what?

Yes im serious, why wouldnt i be? Its a slur, and slurs should be avoided (even if you really really want to say it anyways). Its not that hard to find a different word with less historical baggage, and why do yall wanna say a slur so badly anyways?

Because they haven't repented yet.

There was a cpuple decades where we almost made some societal progress against the system and removed the r-slur from public usage and from law and pathology. Just because the facists are back in power, dont mean you gotta accept their cultural movement against the different and disabled, its not that hard to be conscientious of the effects of your words on other people.

It's not a fucking slur. To retard is to stop or halt progress of something. Dependent word Retardent. I swear people get butthurt over things that have nothing to do with them and crusade over self righteousness.

The n word is a slur. Retard isn't. Stop policing speech

Nerd is not a slur, you take that back right now.

See my first comment. Here it is again in case ypu missed it, you ableist POS. You and I both know chemical retardation isnt the context im referring to, don't patronize me. "I don't think it can be reclaimed because it will always be used to demean or degrade by comparing the target to someone who is different and that difference should never be used as an insult"

Im not "policing speech", im asking yall to be polite. If youre using it in chemistry, fine whatever, who tf cares? But to use it in regards to another person, using a word thats been used to institutionalize disabled minorities, and still is, people like me? You've gotta be ignorant or malicious to pretend its not a word thats been used to enact the same harm that the n word was.