r****d

Agreed.

If a doctor said: "James should be called Jim", but Jim doesn't like it, can people call James Jim now with James not thinking they're assholes? Honest question here.

That "medical term" stuff throws a monkey wrench into this whole scenario (or am I offending monkeys?!?!?!)...

 

i'm such a bad person because i call someone r****ded for the stupid things they do.

 

Except in your analogy their still talking about James and calling him Jim. My analogy is that these random people are calling their own idiot friends Jim and someone else is offended that anyone at all is called Jim instead of James.

 

Jim while James had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher. (punctuation test)

 

This thread went full Jim.

 

Exactly - because you associate "r****ded" with "stupid". That's the heart of the problem. I don't understand how this is different than calling people "f*g" or "gay" as an insult - something that was widely accepted and used 10 years ago and now people realize is stupid and offensive.

 

Yep. This is essentially what I was going to post.

 

emjohn, you're a good brother-in-law. Thanks for posting this thread.

 

But is it only offensive if you associate the mentally disabled as stupid?

They can't other people be stupid?

 

That is why this is so stupid. The person is mentally r****ded. We will be in the clinic and say "Bill, go see the r****ded boy in room 3". Just because someone doesn't like it doesn't make it offensive.

 

What?

 

Meant to write, why can't other people be stupid? Old dyslexia kicking in.

 

I just can't imagine that there are a lot of intellectually capable people going around calling each other r****dS.

 

People can certainly be stupid and do stupid things. That being the case, call them stupid or idiots or say what they are doing is stupid or idiotic.

 

so it's ok to just call him "stupid" then? wouldn't that just be as insulting to the stupid?

and i know that mentally r****ded persons are not stupid in the literal sense.

 

I am aghast of your blatant use of a derogatory term for mentally challenged. How dare you. I will report you at once.

 

Meh. Just don't try to insult people with the word, man... but don't try to erase it from the dictionary because people who don't know its definition don't know how to use it, is all.

Exactly.

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Still gonna use the "full r****d" meme where applicable. Those likely to be offended by that ought to avoid places where it could come about: D&D, Hangout and Lin threads.

Oh and the fire McHale thread too

 

Did anyone notice in Ron Artest's tweet he said to remove the derogatory use of the R word?

I think you all know well that he doesn't intend to stop using the word when D12 misses 10 FTs in a row.

 

Actually, I have a change of heart on the subject.

I always assumed society has moved on from word r****d to the PC term mentally challenged/handicapped or whatever.

In my mind, r****d = stupid, not anything more.

If that isn't the case, I can see how it can be offensive, similar to how you wouldn't say, "I just Jewed that guy." as an alternative to I just ripped that guy off.