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December 28, 2011 11:20 pm at 11:20 pm
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popa_bar_abba
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DY: Sorry, I responded to you, but it looks like my reply didn’t make it past the mods (weird because I cut and pasted a previous comment.)
I referred to the chiluk I made between terms which have acquired a negative secondary meaning, and words whose negative association is only from the actual primary definition.
I quote from above: Racial terms have come to have a negative meaning beyond the actual definition. So that calling someone n
doesn’t mean only “Black,” it also means inferior. There is a secondary meaning of “inferior.” Being Black is not actually inferior, but racists use it in that way, until the term they used “n—-” acquired a secondary meaning of “inferior.”
Retarded doesn’t have a negative secondary meaning. It only means mentally disabled. The negative meaning is the actual definition.