• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Why is removed censored but retard isn’t? What about fire retardant? It makes the fire removed, by retardation.

    • mountainRadish@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      What do you mean by "removed being censored?

      Remove is not a bad word!?

      I don’t get your comment.

      Fire retardant don’t stop fires, they retard it, meaning slows it, so in warehouses you have ceiling with fire retardant which slows the spread of fire but doesn’t stop it.

      A cool tidbit, until recently, I used to think I am intellectually disabled, but I am not, I am just have mental retardation. So I am intelligent and smart just have a slow processing speed

    • Dookieman12@piefed.social
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      5 days ago

      If you’ve ever called someone an idiot or moron, that’s just as wrong (arguably more wrong) as calling someone a retard. Look up the “euphemism treadmill”.

      All of these terms were used to describe the same people and fell out of favor when people started using them as pejorative terms.