This is to the STFU crowd who sound like they are either clueless or just ignorant. I believe the later to be the case. Children with mental disabilities were labeled the “R” word which outcasted them from schoolmates. As great efforts were made not to use this word and make an “inclusive” environment for children with disabilities, great progress has been made. Why do so-called adults feel the need to use the word in that “meaning”? It seems the youth has more common sense then their parents.
The word is "latter" you retard.
The word RETARDED has a very clear and specific meaning and applies accurately to mental abilities, engine timing, fire control, and dozens of other things. It's sort of like the word crippled.
If retarded is replaced with "mental disabilities", then inevitability "mental disabilities" will be used to make anyone it applies to feel "outcasted them from schoolmates". A new, more sensitive term will be coined, that isn't as harsh as the "MD word". Then the stupid PC cycle will repeat itself. Negro, black, African American anybody?