I try to only use words like that in jest. I myself am not easily offended but I can see where the people who are coming from are. You wouldn't walk up to a Jewish person and call them a kike, or call a black man a nigger.
I see it in the vein of being a respectful person.... if someone did something *really* fucking stupid, that's one thing. But I try not to insult people unless we're just dicking around, just because I feel like you generally get better results with interpersonal relations when you don't resort to ad hominem. :P
Maybe it just sounds derrogatory to me because I don't like the way it rolls off the tongue. D: I don't know, it's just kind of an ugly sounding word. XD Never been one of my favorites.
IIN I'm bothered that people are bothered by the term 'retard'?
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I try to only use words like that in jest. I myself am not easily offended but I can see where the people who are coming from are. You wouldn't walk up to a Jewish person and call them a kike, or call a black man a nigger.
I see it in the vein of being a respectful person.... if someone did something *really* fucking stupid, that's one thing. But I try not to insult people unless we're just dicking around, just because I feel like you generally get better results with interpersonal relations when you don't resort to ad hominem. :P
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You fail to realize retarded never used to be an offensive word until recently. Kike and nigger are, by nature, derogatory words used as insults.
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Maybe it just sounds derrogatory to me because I don't like the way it rolls off the tongue. D: I don't know, it's just kind of an ugly sounding word. XD Never been one of my favorites.
You are right.