KillingTimeItself

that's not how i use it, but if that's how you use it, than yeah sure. But i don't.

that's factually incorrect and misinformation, so yes, it should be challenged.

I'm not saying that the word retard is a good thing for society though.

Can you please use the word in a context that is not insulting?

lets say for example, you left your car outside, and it rained, and after the storm passed you realized you left the windows down. I would say that it would be a pretty "retarded situation" my response would probably be something along the lines of "well that was retarded" both literally, and on my end.

How would you describe someone or something as “retarded” without implying that there is something wrong with the person or thing?

If i'm using it to insult people, i'm referring to people who have a functional neurology, and aren't actively using it, for whatever reason. As opposed to people who are intellectually/developmentally disabled/challenged whatever you want to use works, who cannot function on that level. There's nothing inherently wrong with having a lowered level of neurological function. There is something inherently wrong with being so obtuse you obscure your own intelligence in stupidity, and be a retard in the process.

If i'm referring to something stupid i did and it's not a person. Something like the previous car example. I might design or build something, and in the process i realize i've made a significant mistake, misplaced some key component, and done something irreversible that needs to be undone, that would be retarded.

I mean, if you literally google the definition of retard it says: "to stay back" "put off, post pone, or delay" Of course the perjorative version was historically used to insult people, specifically those of a lower intelligence. But just because it was once used that way, doesn't necessarily mean i'm using it that way now.

whenever i say it, i'm almost exclusively not referencing people who are developmentally challenged, i'm referencing people who are fucking stupid. You could call them developmentally challenged, but then you're just doing the retard thing that happened to make it a pejorative in the first place. And even then, that's not necessarily true because it's such a sterile definition.

a picture of (not me) because i don't approach women in the club. Because i don't go clubbing.

Shit's weird, i'm staying home, no thanks.

Good meme though.

i don't even necessarily disagree with that argument. I just don't think it's really all that relevant. I'm not even sure most people would disagree with it.

Obviously you should be nice to people, you probably shouldn't be an asshole, and you should help them as much as possible, but like, how many of us actually do that?

It's sort of like telling someone who smokes, that it's bad for them, they know, you don't need to remind them.

ah, yeah no that would do it, i wouldn't report shit like this either. People are entitled to posting their dogshit opinions on the internet (myself included lmao)

yeah, probably shouldn't doesn't mean you can't though.

Just because you probably shouldn't yell at people, or swear at them, doesn't mean you can't or won't.

Not everything in this world is a binary, sometimes it's situationally appropriate, sometimes it's not, sometimes it's in between.

yeah, ultimately the only thing worse than unbridled bigotry, is misplaced accusations of bigotry. That's one of the unfortunate things with this problem, and similar ones like it, is that unless you judge it by the character of the context, it can be really wide sweeping sometimes.

anyway, i hope you have a swell day fren :)

yeah but who uses it like that? I don't. I just use it because i think it's a funny word and i think it has situational comedy potential.

I'm not going to seek out people with mental disorders and call them retarded, that'd be evil.

You're basically arguing because one person is a terrible person, that we should change to accommodate against them.

And genetics were used to justify genocide and eugenics. By your logic are genetics absolutely evil?

genetics are a constant truth, so the argument should be based from the perspective that genetics mean something, in regards to genocide and eugenics, not that genetics itself is flawed, because genetics didn't create this perception, humans did.

edit: retards was a typo of regards lmao, what an unfortunate typo.

it's the internet, and this is a post about blackholes and a bird being recorded. This is a tad bit out of place for what it is, not surprised people downvoted it, probably because they thought it was irrelevant, oh well, that's the internet, sometimes people like what you have to say, other times they don't. Don't think about it too hard, at the end of the day it's just internet karma.