On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Dave Maez <sellout@dharmadevil.com> wrote:
I think this is just another example of retards using a normal word to hurt others, and fucking it up for the rest of us because some other retards try to "fix" it. Like that retard "manager" I get every few years, who's such a pussy that he can't talk to the person whose behavior he thinks needs correction, so he sends a memo to everyone and vaguely, pussily talks around the problem. I guess those aren't all pussies, though: Edward 'Tiger Mike' Davis was most definitely not a pussy, but he did the same thing. With the memos. That's not a pussy, that's an asshole. Yes, there's irony in there, you retard.
On 8/31/2010 8:59 PM, JZ wrote:[then Dave wrote some great stuff about how the fervor over "retard" is really just some (heh, heh) retarded political correctness -- and that term is bullshit too, yo. Why do we have to be politically correct about some assholes who think they know how everyone else should act? ]PS - I don't get how people get so bent out of shape about words like "retard", changing the words doesn't change the meaning...
Back to the matter at hand. See also nigger and other racial epithets, and, well, other epithets. That is, epithets started as words. [ if you're going to click on any link in this dopamine-fueled response, click that one, nigga ... what, what? Dopamine? Yeah, I'm talkin' to you, Substantia Nigra. ]
I think George Carlin expounded on this many times, as did Lenny Bruce. They blew it, though, when they argued from "they're just words." IMHO, words are the ultimate power of humanity. You can fuck your own self up if you tell yourself harmful things, and some of the most powerful dramas in human history are about one or more people fucking someone else over with words alone.
You may recall that I taught retarded adults for five years. My first stint was an ICF/MR5 facility, i.e., high functioning, needed exemptions for profoundly retarded people, and they lived there. It had a professional name, but we employees called it Richard's Retard Ranch because the QMRP (and director) was Richard Jordan, who also called them retards. He was great; he knew and taught that retarded people have to be better than normal people, i.e., they have to try harder and be conscious of their retardation, because everyone else can tell that they're retarded and tend to stare at them and wait for them to fuck up. Because, you know, they're retarded and I'm not.
That was the really weird, mind-bending part: They knew that they were retarded, and they could, and did maintain the meta-awareness to manage it. As long as they weren't in a bad mood, or distracted, that is. You know, just like "normal people." Yup, retards lose it, too, and in those moments, they seem to be the most normal, because, like everyone else, they act like idiots when they're upset.
Anyway, we said "retard" because we felt we'd earned the right after having been spit on, shit on, punched, kicked, lied to, and manipulated by the "residents" (hey, look, more irony). Richard, on the other hand, had written a dissertation and regularly presented at conferences about how important it was to defuse the word "retard" with retarded people, and especially with their relatives. He was so grown up about it that he could be a child with the people under his care.
Finally, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMpsttlXye8&NR=1, "rih-TARD" vs. "REE-tard." I could swear that Alan pointed out that the latter would be spelt with two e's, though.
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Brad Morrison, brad.morrison@gmail.com. Part-time retard, full-time sysadmin. Go ahead, try and tell the difference.
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