Wikepedia states
“Much like today’s socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult.”
Is it only a slur if directed at soneone with mental disabilities? Is it a slur if durected at onself?
Whats lemmies take on this?
Does it not have every reason to be considered a slur that the N word has? I say this as opposed to things like “idiot” and “hillbilly”, there isn’t a dark history behind them. No soul ever disparagingly gruntled “bleh, hillbilly” as a rural homebody was shoved into an asylum cell ten years after MLK fought for the rights of people of a certain other group whose category I cannot innocently say according to the very people here despite any support otherwise.