Posted on 06/14/2021 1:23:38 PM PDT by RandFan
Senator Chuck Schumer over the weekend referred to mentally disabled children as “retarded.”
During a podcast interview regarding public housing, Schumer said: “I wanted to build when I first was an Assemblyman, they wanted to build a congregate living place for retarded children."
“The whole neighborhood was against it, these are homeless kids. They just needed some help.”
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Well, when it comes to Schumer, all one can say is: It takes one to know one, Schumer.
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I’m fine with it too.
But I wouldn’t omit Schumer himself from that designation.
Something about Mary was great.
“If you should “win” something, I don’t think I’ll want to be on your side.”
I’m sure I won’t want you on mine.
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If it was fair across the board ok. But if Marjorie Greene said it. All hell would break loose.
Ok. Let’s person of the short bus.
Schmucky is from the government and he wants to help you.
I agree, I’m just not a hypocritical douchebag like Dems are.
No one likes that term, but oftentimes, there is no other way to describe someone’s condition. I try to use the ‘nicer’ terms, but sometimes forget. I work part time with some autistic people. I recall about 25 years ago when we were asked to use the term ‘Consumer’ instead of ‘Client’.
I am not. That’s the N word for the mentally disabled. Unless you are a liberal/libtard - for which the term is appropriate - I do not use the word.
” to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment
: to become delayed : to undergo retardation”
They are. It’s not a slur, it’s literally what it means.
Exactly. If this had been a Republican, the Democrats and their media would have called for his/her resignation, we all would have been subjected to weeks of “the right’s hatred toward the disabled” headlines and examples (no matter how ridiculous) and the leftist trolls would have been all over the internet calling all Republicans…..retards. It’s the new circle of (political) life.
democrats are the worst sort of people.
Retardation – Retardation describes the phase shift between the polarization component projected along the fast axis and the component projected along the slow axis. Retardation is specified in units of degrees, waves, or nanometers. One full wave of retardation is equivalent to 360°, or the number of nanometers at the wavelength of interest. Tolerance on retardation is typically stated in degrees, natural or decimal fractions of a full wave, or nanometers. Examples of typical retardation specifications and tolerances are:
λ/4 ± λ/300
λ/2 ± 0.003λ
λ/2 ± 1°
430nm ± 2nm
The most popular retardation values are λ/4, λ/2, and 1λ, but other values can be useful in certain applications. For example, internal reflection from a prism causes a phase shift between components that may be troublesome; a compensating waveplate can restore the desired polarization.
In Figure 3 below, 4 retardation values are shown relative to an original, sine wave. The orange wave is retarded by a quarter of a wave, the yellow by a half, the green by three-quarters, and lastly, the blue by a full wave. The retardation by a quarter wave changes the sine wave to a cosine wave and the full wave retardation lets the wave elapse itself. The most popular waveplates are quarter and half waveplates since they can be stacked to achieve additional retardation values.
one needs to look at his age to understand he was using it as a descriptive for a situation not as a pejorative. I am 55 and when I was a kid it was the word used to describe anyone with low intelligence and it was not usually done out of meanness. though to day when it is tossed around it usually is. language is constantly changing and eventually the term used to say low intelligence currently will change and mentally challenge will be seen as a pejorative.
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Use it to insult a normal person being a moron and the parents with mentally impaired children get insulted.
Refer to the word and the parents with mentally impaired children get insulted.
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