Joe Rogan declared that the re-emergence of the disability slur "retard" is "one of the greatest cultural victories" on his podcast Thursday.
  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    144·
    3 months ago

    “Retarded” isn’t a medical definition under IDC-11, so they aren’t retarded, as the medical definitions have changed.

    Also Retarded has another standard definition – Being held back or stunted of which applies here.

      • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
        105·
        3 months ago

        They stopped using that word because it wasn’t descriptive. The same reason they stopped diagnosing women as “hysterical”. That’s the cool thing about the sciences; they evolve and change over time to be more descriptive, not less.

        And now, we use the word hysterical to describe certain things…kinda cool how that works, right? When I call something hysterical (extremely funny) - people don’t get offended and say I’m using a slur.

        Or when someone is losing their shit, you say they’re acting hysterical. It’s become a descriptor.

        • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          losing their shit

          Hey hey hey, let’s not use incontinence as an insult my dude.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            3 months ago

            Gradually?? I don’t think the r word has been directly related to mental disability the entire time I’ve been alive, and I’m not exactly young… You’re just choosing to take offense, which is white-knighting for the disabled when they’re not even being insulted… Kinda’ … extremely lame of you…

            Oh wait, being lame used to be a health disorder! Guess I’m offending you again…