• dlpkl@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s crazy how much support this fuckin retard has on Facebook and Tiktok. Every comment on every post on social media is licking this welfare queen’s nutsack and it’s annoying as hell.

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      1 year ago

      This is like the 4th time I’ve seen “retard” used on Lemmy today, I thought we all stopped using that word in the 2000s. I also haven’t heard “welfare queen” in a while either.

      Poilievre isn’t a good person, but we can target him and his political party with words that don’t hit others in the crossfire.

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        1 year ago

        Retard was a widely used word before it was considered non-PC so people, like me still use the term literally and not in a way that denigrates mentally handicapped people. I don’t use the term everywhere, just around my local friends who are like-minded.

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        1 year ago

        Are you implying that retard is a class of people? Because I doubt whoever you’re concerned about would raise their hand to identify as one.

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          1 year ago

          The people I am concerned about are those like my sister with Downs.

          “Retarded” stopped being used by the American government to refer to people with intellectual disabilities in the 2010s. Even though I am not American, our cultures are intertwined enough that what they do matters.

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            1 year ago

            Again I doubt your sister would choose to identify with that word. Languages evolve, and you’re clinging on to a meaning that was lost decades ago. It’s a dead slur and it doesn’t take a genius to recognize that it’s not disparaging towards the intellectually disabled, but go ahead and clutch your pearls.