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The R-word, also known as the R-slur, is a hurtful term that remains prevalent throughout social media, according to a Kantar Social Listening study. The research shows that when social media users are posting about people with intellectual disabilities, 7 in every 10 of those posts are negative, and 6 in 10 contain a slur.
The R-word is a form of hate speech that stands for “######,” “######ed,” or other offensive words ending in “-tard.” While “mental ######ation” was originally introduced as a medical term in 1961 for people with intellectual disabilities, in the decades since, the R-word has become an insult used all too commonly in everyday language. Those who use the R-word often do so with little regard for the pain it causes people with intellectual disabilities—and the exclusion it perpetuates in our society.
This sounds like the failed push South Park made to bring back the F word a few years ago. I will admit I was a user of the R word growing up, but no need to to bring back something that's very hurtful to people who struggle with so much already.
It actually, at one time meant, to delay or slow down. Given its history, I don't see the need to use for that purpose either.
Well if you're using it in a mechanical engineering sense like "engine ######er" or "fire ######ant:, there are definitely ways the word can be used for its intended meaning. But ya, to echo Locke, it's not a word that should be used as an insult or a descriptor as those with mental disabilities are the last group of people who should ever be made to feel less than or the butt of a joke anymore.
My elementary school bully used to punch me and call me a "metal r#####" every day and I had no idea what he was saying. One day all of us went to his house (as you do in elementary school) to play and I witnessed his dad slapping him around and calling him a mental r#####.
That moment was my first a-ha moment that I remember in my life.
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I fail to understand what ****** can achieve that you can't manage with w***stain or s***gibbon, f***muppet or just a simple c***ing moron? I mean don't these fine examples of the English language work anymore?
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I fail to understand what ****** can achieve that you can't manage with w***stain or s***gibbon, f***muppet or just a simple c***ing moron? I mean don't these fine examples of the English language not work anymore?
Those are slurs used by Limey ####s. We're not worthy of using them on this side of the Atlantic.
I'm not super serious about this thread. I can definitely live without using the term, especially in a way that hurts people. Just looking to stir things up.
Toe rag was always a favorite of mine, I don't know what a toe rag is but if ever someone shouted 'what are you looking at you effing toe rag' I was about to be in barney rubble
Bringing back the 'R' word.
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