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- nwoantibody, on 05/31/2009, -17/+95so does the army
so does the police
... worst part, w/ your tax money - GoKings, on 06/01/2009, -9/+67Buried for redundancy... Anyone in a gang is already mentally retarded.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -2/+49TIMMAY!
didn't he join the crips? - RobotKeaton, on 06/01/2009, -3/+35Criminals have been doing this for years.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Rock ... - AraleNorimaki, on 06/01/2009, -5/+37you forgot about
the tsa
fox news
mtv - VintageShake, on 06/01/2009, -2/+33For many years I have worked for the Department of Mental Retardation in MA. Please note- Retardation IS in the name of the organization.
It might be politically correct to use mentally handicapped/deficient/any other such word when describing someone of this nature- but in the industry that works with them, Retarded is still a word that is used. Even more so in other countries, as their human rights and decency areas have not caught up to us.
So people- stop being offended by the use of the word. That website probably just had the most literal translation done to a dutch article. - Yez70, on 06/01/2009, -10/+37...and the GOP - they even made one of them president....
- DrFong, on 06/01/2009, -2/+28Master Blaster run Bartertown!
- Subduction, on 06/01/2009, -5/+28I saw a few TV programs on biker gangs -- it was a bunch of 50-year-old men talking about being tough, not taking ***** from anybody, getting to wake up whatever time they wanted, and vowing to "get" enemies that didn't show the proper respect to their bros.
It was like an entire group of people whose development arrested in the eighth grade. - Razorfiend, on 06/01/2009, -0/+20If you hadn't noticed, the rest of the website is in Danish. The editor/writer's primary language most probably isn't English and thus it can be assumed that he would hardly be aware of "politically correct" alternatives such as "developmentally disabled", to him, the word "retarded" was a concise way of getting his message across.
I'll admit that when I initially glanced at the article I had a chuckle and the first thing that came to mind was "Wtf, that's one ballsy writer.", then I saw the rest of the page surrounding it and, well you get the picture. - inactive, on 06/01/2009, -1/+20Pat Healy: I work with retards.
Mary: Isn't that a little politically incorrect?
Pat Healy: Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with. - Subduction, on 06/01/2009, -1/+18No rolf, not motorcyclists. I'm a motorcyclist.
We're talking about biker gangs here - one percenters. - Subduction, on 06/01/2009, -10/+27Retarded Bikers sounds kind of redundant.
- NateSikes, on 06/01/2009, -6/+21and don't forget religion
- gatorfree, on 06/01/2009, -2/+17Did they recruit Kanye?
- f4nt0m4s, on 06/01/2009, -3/+18Two weeks ago, Supreme Court banned the execution of retarded people.
People in Texas are going, "*****, where's the fun in that?"
'Cause they were zapping retarded people every other week.
It was like, "Go sit on Santa's lap, Timmy."
And I know the definition of "retarded" in Texas is pretty wide.
It's crazy!
-robin williams - DouglasQ, on 06/01/2009, -1/+15I want a retarded henchman. -and I will name him Igor.
- indubitably, on 06/01/2009, -10/+23dude, retarded is not the preferred nomenclature.
- jba68, on 06/01/2009, -1/+13never go full retard
- Frixionburne, on 06/01/2009, -7/+18I still fail to see the difference between calling someone "retarded" or "challenged".
The word is still describing the same ***** characteristics. Isn't going out of the way to sweep a situation under the carpet more of an offense than some stupid word that society deems derogatory? - rolf, on 06/01/2009, -4/+14Maybe they were just the bikers who didn't wear a helmet the first accident around:)
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -3/+11Do you want a piece of cake jimmy?
THEN GO BUY ME 300 BOXES OF PSEUDOPHED!!! - Razorfiend, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8What I'm saying is, to him the use of the word "Retarded" is completely proper. What you fail to see is that the cultural ideals and norms which may seem so commonplace and irrefutably, undeniably important, the proverbial cornerstones of our modern intellectualized civilization such as the (mis)use of the word "retarded"... (/s off). have not permeated the rest of the world, just because something is deemed unacceptable in one place, doesn't make it unacceptable somewhere else.
Take for example the word "fag", now, In the United States, if you walked up to someone and said "Oy, you, can I bum a fag", you'd either get shot, punched or run over. But in England if you said the same thing, assuming the person had a pack of smokes and wasn't a stingy bastard, he'd hand you one.
In addition, the word retarded was a medically acceptable term until about 2006. - BZKyle, on 06/01/2009, -2/+10He knows from experience.
- charlie6969, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8Thank you.
- f4nt0m4s, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8Mental Retardation was changed to the broader (and more confusing) grouping term "developmental disability," but that was in North America and just within the past 2 or 3 years. My recent Abnormal Psych book still has a section on Mental Retardation, and politically correct or not, 'mental slowness' is probably an accurate way to describe a disorder where people have an IQ below 70 and usually have delayed cognitive reactions.
In medical context aka referring to the disorder of Mental Retardation, using the term "Retarded" shouldn't offend you and is a forgivable offense for our European journalists. Lord knows I don't know all the slang words that might offend someone else in a different culture. - jpl7986, on 06/01/2009, -2/+9buried because you're retarded.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -1/+8dugg for 'retarded people' in title
- nugz85, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6he didnt join the crips, he was a crip from birth!
- Rain12913, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6"But according to wardens at several treatment centres, retarded people are ideal tools for gangs as they have no inhibitions and are unable to feel empathy for their victims."
So they're saying that retarded people have no inhibitions and are unable to feel empathy? What a bunch of *****, they clearly have never met a mentally retarded person, I've met a few who are some of the best human beings I've come in contact with. A better way to say this would have been something like "Retarded people are ideal because they are less likely to understand the moral or illegal status of the behaviors they are forced to commit". - Barackalypse, on 06/01/2009, -3/+9Any other time we'd be congratulating equal opportunity employers who do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, physical or mental disability.
- RobotKeaton, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da*
- Rain12913, on 06/01/2009, -0/+5Two possibilities:
1. He phrased the same general idea in a more appealing and agreeable way.
2. A different selection of people read each of your respective comments and the group that reads yours tended to disagree with you.
Is it really that big a deal? I learned long ago that trying to figure out why people digg down some perfectly correct things is futile. - drknockrz, on 06/01/2009, -1/+6People of limited intelligence are useful for tasks that a non-disabled person might question or try to perform their way. The optimal IQ for a NYPD street officer is about 115, according to their hiring guidelines. They must be smart enough to perform the required task but not smart enough to think too deeply about it.
- Rain12913, on 06/01/2009, -1/+6Okay seriously this is getting ridiculous. Why do people insist on incorrectly using grammar in sentences about the mental fitness of other people? Is this a meme I missed or something?
- booyahbitch, on 06/01/2009, -4/+8MTV for sure, but I don't know about the TSA, I think they are mostly Aliens...
- BenTheTank, on 06/01/2009, -3/+7Some words just have negative and/or hurtful connotations.
You really don't see the difference between 'homosexual' and '*****'? - anonymousmedic, on 06/01/2009, -1/+5Retardation is the medical term, dumbass.
- maz2331, on 06/01/2009, -3/+7WTF is at all wrong with the term "retarded" anyway? It just means "slowed down" - and some people are just that, slowed down regarding learning. It isn't a perjorative at all, especially if it is accurate.
Why do we need to use such long and pseudo-intellectual terms to describe common conditions? - Spinducky08, on 06/01/2009, -0/+4I thought so too, unless they've updated their colors recently:
http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/up ... - michelsonmorley, on 06/01/2009, -0/+4Good points.
It's Danish not Dutch though. Common mistake. - Jman5, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3"retarded peopleare ideal tools for gangs as they have no inhibitions and are unable to feel empathy for their victims."
I couldn't help myself but laugh at how ridiculous that sentence was. I was half expecting the next sentence to read something like: "Retarded people also enjoy the taste of orphan tears and crushed dreams!" - spook69, on 06/01/2009, -2/+5You're.
- thegrantman, on 06/01/2009, -1/+4Dugg because you're retarded.
- booyahbitch, on 06/01/2009, -1/+4YOU WIN!!! I am laughing so hard, I blew a snot tube out of my nose!!!
- Fabbyfubz, on 06/01/2009, -1/+4Also, Walmart.
- kukurio, on 06/01/2009, -2/+5Dugg for "one percenters." I found out what that meant by watching Sons of Anarchy.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -3/+6Do they at least get sweet henchmen costumes?
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -2/+5The campaign against "the r-word" is retarded as hell.
- nyxerebos, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2It doesn't matter what you call it, people will use any non-pejorative, technical term to abuse those they disagree with and it will acquire a stigma. Hence the long cycle of new terms to describe those who are hard of thinking.
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