Mee@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoElon Musk Won’t Stop Using the R-Word: Donald Trump has a track record of anti-disability rhetoric. It’s unsurprising he surrounds himself with people that do, too.progressive.orgexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down115
arrow-up1258arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk Won’t Stop Using the R-Word: Donald Trump has a track record of anti-disability rhetoric. It’s unsurprising he surrounds himself with people that do, too.progressive.orgMee@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squareMountingSuspicion@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoCan I ask what context you hear it used in?
minus-squareCalipherJones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year ago“Sorry I just took off my leotard. Allow me to retard”
minus-squarenoride@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year ago“I need to retard the timing on my carburetor because it’s suddenly 1973 again”
minus-squareFlic@mstdn.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago@NotLemming @MountingSuspicion fellow English and I would say it’s even more offensive here than in the US! Maybe that’s why you’ve not heard it.
minus-squareFlic@mstdn.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoyeah I know! But it was very common for a long time. Retard was voted worst by British disabled people in the early 2000s (and of course the Spastics Society had to rename to Scope in the 90s because of the misuse of the term, so it’s significant if R is worse). Currently both on the “strong” column in the ofcom list (which is a sometimes fun, sometimes horrible reference guide). https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand-research/tv-research/offensive-language-quick-reference-guide.pdf It took the US a *lot* longer to recognise spastic/spaz as offensive too.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think it got offensive when it was used with" mentally retarded" so blatantly
minus-squareOfCourseNot@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIn French it would be ‘attardé’ I think.
Can I ask what context you hear it used in?
“Sorry I just took off my leotard. Allow me to retard”
“I need to retard the timing on my carburetor because it’s suddenly 1973 again”
deleted by creator
@NotLemming @MountingSuspicion fellow English and I would say it’s even more offensive here than in the US! Maybe that’s why you’ve not heard it.
deleted by creator
yeah I know! But it was very common for a long time. Retard was voted worst by British disabled people in the early 2000s (and of course the Spastics Society had to rename to Scope in the 90s because of the misuse of the term, so it’s significant if R is worse). Currently both on the “strong” column in the ofcom list (which is a sometimes fun, sometimes horrible reference guide). https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand-research/tv-research/offensive-language-quick-reference-guide.pdf
It took the US a *lot* longer to recognise spastic/spaz as offensive too.
deleted by creator
I think it got offensive when it was used with" mentally retarded" so blatantly
In French it would be ‘attardé’ I think.