In late 2009, NPR ran a very effective effort to vilify the word โretardedโ and outright ban its use from the lexicon.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 26, 2024
It was slowly building steam through the Associated Press the year before and following NPRโs efforts, the word was effectively purged from the mainstreamโฆ pic.twitter.com/XZqizRL1pB
NPR is the reason we cant call people r-slurred any more
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!r-slurs remember what they took from us
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I've been trying to bring 'spastic' back. Can't go wrong with the classics
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Sped (for special ed) was also a classic one when I was younger.
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We're not supposed to say sped anymore, either. Some DEI person at work literally told a group of us teachers that we needed to start referring to SPED kids as โdifferent learnersโ
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go full '80s and say spazoid
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old butt neighbor ๐
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dont spaz out dork!
!slots200
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Sperg is fun
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Leftoids are feeble minded
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@Aevann new slur filter just dropped
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is this actually true? more likely was a joint effort by a broad coalition of busybody churchladies in many "progressive" institutions.
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The Malaysian doesn't care about facts, just outrage and engagement
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Eh doesn't afraid of anything.
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Die, Grifter.
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This has been going on for a long while. My school brought in the r-slur who played Corky on Life Goes On and his mom was trying to get us to stop calling each other r-slurred. She also didn't like the term Down Syndrome since she felt it was too pessimistic. She called it "up" syndrome as though that made her kid less r-slurred. Anyway, we called each other Corkies for a bit until the principal started suspending kids.
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