Bernie is, and always has been, The Man. In the good sense.
Bernie is, and always has been, The Man. In the good sense.
I had to ditch my girlfriend because she became an arch elitist. Debian ftw.
Did you even read what I wrote?
Those few Dems are clearly the ones pushing this. But that it should be bipartisan and should have more support in general has nothing to do with false equivocation.
The irony here, though, is that because of your partisan BS, you clearly interpreted that as an insult to the Democrats.
Those three Democrat are focusing on the thing all of the Democrats and Republicans should.
Yeah, there’s stuff to like, but… but…
I just disable most of the Pop stuff and use vanilla gnome.
Mental retardation is no excuse for abuse. But it’s still an apt term, in denotation. But the connotation has become unacceptable.
A plant’s growth may be retarded due to various conditions, and that may interfere with it’s prospects for survival.
Fire retardant may prevent a fire from starting, or stop one that has started to develop.
But when considering people, there are a whole slew of subtle problems, including that people may include that in their identity, and give up. They can be treated, possibly, but that’s all for them now. You’re a retard. It leaves no room for other things. People still feel this way about some diagnoses that, if they didn’t lean into them so hard, leave plenty of room for change. But the social weight behind “retard” just carries too much crap, and speaks volumes - some of which may be true, but a lot of which is not.
‘Disabled’, ‘undeveloped’, and ‘inhibited’ can be good terms. But most of it depends more heavily on how we treat others and what has been taken into common use.
Retard is more recently used, and is still being cycled out.
Except that with “retard” and quite a few others, there are genuine traits that are undesirable to most people, thus the constant cycling of terms. Technical terms come in to general and pejorative use, then new technical terms come in to be less pejorative. This the terms more and more vaguely refer to the condition when referencing actual mentally handicapped people.
idiot
moron
cretin
retard (from ‘[profound] mental retardation’)
All technical or health terms that have been cycled into being slurs in common use. Some more terms that have made their way into pejorative use:
Handicapped (not so much pejoratively used, but being cycled out anyways)
Special
Differently Abled
I’m sure any new technical terms that are used will be picked up for pejorative use soon enough. But “mentally retarded” was and is an apt description, it’s just not socially acceptable anymore because of it’s ease of use as an insult, and the concomitant public view and usage of the word.
I think you may be misunderstanding your “victory” here. I suppose that’s pretty contextual, when it comes down to it.
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Yes, it’s easy. BUT:
Filthy things. They kind of want to be used, don’t they?
Healthy in the sense of ‘being a thriving entity’, not in the sense of ‘being particularly good for your health’.
Holy shit, you are so right. I must have been sorting by something whack that put this near the top.
Fair enough, but kinda off-topic.
Tragedy of the Commons.
Right?