It's Wrong When They Do It: "Retard"

[Indy]

[NAB]

[Darkhorse]

[Mr. Shaman]

[Mr. Shaman]

[Philly]

What a silly thread.

[Philly]

[John Galt]

my not quite one year old nephew has downs and my sister scolds me for saying "retarded" but i don't think it's wrong to say. I try not to say it around her just because i don't want an earful, but i was conveying to her a conversation we were having about my mother.

I was telling her that last Christmas my mother had described to my mother's sister, Mary, that my sister's (the one with a child with downs) neighbor is a racist moron. basically that's how she described him, and this is true, my sister's neighbor -- and HIS name is STACEY -- is a real life racist. I'd never encountered someone like this before, but my sister does live in georgia. anyway. she was describing this person to Mary and she said my father called him "Southern Stan". STAN, is the name of MARY'S HUSBAND. I'm sitting there watching this conversation unfold and i'm thinking "what the f**k mom that's not f**k funny to tell her that your husband thinks her husband is a racist moron. are you f**k retarded?".

so i'm telling my sister this and then she flips out about the R-word. to which i said i wasn't asking is she had down's but rather if she was f**k retarded. meaning retarded. and i don't think it's a wrong thing to say

[Professor]

Better question: Who is the retard that resurrected a 2+year old thread?

[Indy]

Haha I was thinking the same thing although that's been a trend lately and oddly most of the threads have been mine.

The whole Benghazi outcome thing deserves a thread of its own, not sure how it got shoe-horned into a thread about Palin the the word "retard."