Mee to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 days 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.orgmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down115
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minus-square@MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comlinkfedilink4•8 days agoCan I ask what context you hear it used in?
minus-square@CalipherJones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•8 days ago“Sorry I just took off my leotard. Allow me to retard”
minus-square@noride@lemm.eelinkfedilink8•8 days ago“I need to retard the timing on my carburetor because it’s suddenly 1973 again”
minus-squareFliclinkfedilink3•8 days 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-squareFliclinkfedilink3•edit-28 days 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-square@Ledericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-27 days agoI think it got offensive when it was used with" mentally retarded" so blatantly
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”
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@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.
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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.
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I think it got offensive when it was used with" mentally retarded" so blatantly
In French it would be ‘attardé’ I think.