There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.
There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.
Honestly, it’s not a word in my vocabulary but I think this opinion is moronic, idiotic even.
The only reason it continues to be offense to those living with mental disabilities is because there are people like yourself who keep attributing the word to them.
Oh oh do the n-word!
The n-word isn’t going through a continuous euphemism tread mill, unlike how r word variants continue to go through. That, I think, makes it substantially different — though in truth it’s the same for it as well
almost like ones an actual slur and the other is just something people with too much time on their hands like to pretend matters