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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
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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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