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To: SeekAndFind

AFAIK: He didn’t say “retarded”; he said “effing retards.”

ARAIK: “Retarded” WAS the euphemistic term, originally. “Retard” was ALWAYS a disparaging term, never used by doctors, for instance.


60 posted on 02/06/2010 3:14:11 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Arthur McGowan
“Retard” was ALWAYS a disparaging term, never used by doctors, for instance.

So I guess "tard" is farther along that continuum?
62 posted on 02/06/2010 3:20:37 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Arthur McGowan

Retarded: adjective.

Retard: noun - one who is retarded.

Get over it already.


66 posted on 02/06/2010 3:34:32 PM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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