• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    “Retard” is a slur, among elementary school children.

    “But I was called that as a chiiiild! And now I have issuuuuues!”

    No. You were probably a normal kid and got called bad names like everyone else. Get the fuck over it. If you were actually retarded, you likely had no idea what the word meant.

    Y’all didn’t go to school with severely handicapped kids, did ya? In the 70s, we had no where else to put them but among the “general population” of the schools. And no, it wasn’t the prison most of you young folk grew up in.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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      2 hours ago

      “Actually retarded” isn’t a real thing a person can be, so your argument doesn’t make sense. Sorry if knowledge advancing since the 70s offends you.