Reply To: If you think the R word is offensive you are retarded

Ubiquitin, I agree that part of the question is whether some people find it offensive. But I disagree that that’s all that matters. Intellectual disabilities are not a positive thing in our general framework of evaluation. If you’re right, then we will end up in an endless cycle. We go from retarded, which became offensive because it meant intellectually handicapped, to intellectually disabled, which means the same thing. Then that will become offensive because it means something unpleasant. And we will have to find another term.

LOL I went to wikipedia to figure out the current proper term and the article discusses the “euphemism treadmill”. So I guess it is a thing.