“I taught my children at an early age that ‘retard’ is not an acceptable description for anyone. The implication for any ‘tard’ word is clear, so if it is PC, so be it. Just a pet peeve of mine, I suppose.”
So, where are the hearts bleeding for people with bad personalities? People like you don’t mind at all when the obnoxious are marginalized, stereotyped, stigmatized – driven from town like common pygmies.
Having a bad personality is as big a handicap in life as subnormal intelligence. Worse, perhaps, as lots of mentally retarded people seem quite happy, but the obnoxious can only pretend.
Nobody bleeds for the unpleasant-therefore-friendless, though. It’s always a preferred group that gets the gravy, while other, equally needy and deserving groups get the cold shoulder.
People are what they are. If they’re fat, they’re fat. If they’re obnoxious, they’re obnoxious. If they’re fools, they’re fools. (If they’re fat, obnoxious, fools, God help them, because no one else is going to.)
People who are mentally retarded are mentally retarded, and insisting on euphemisms serves only to obscure the truth.
“People who are mentally retarded are mentally retarded, and insisting on euphemisms serves only to obscure the truth.”
And women are and always will be women and I don’t call them bitches.
And Alan Keyes is and will always will be black and I don’t call him a n*****.
Your post is ridiculous, and I hope you would not be so callous to call someone with Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder, a ‘retard’.
A euphemism? How about a vile epithet? I stand by my position. You had much to say about your views on true conservatism, some that I even conceded. To call those with whom you disagree ‘libtards’ only cheapened your dissertation on this subject.
Good day to you. No further comment is needed, unless you would like to have the pleasure of the last word, which I assume will be the case.