I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
Unfortunately its even earlier meaning still has confections to describing special needs people in formal medical terms. In that retard = slow, retarded = slowed. And of course the other meaning like flame retardant, to slow fire from spreading.
But you’re right that it shouldn’t be a slur.