Now now Little Joey, just remember that word can be used to describe you and your snowflake friends.
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And that’s basically it!
How could this word even be removed. Unlike the N word it actually has legitimate uses. I didn't even know it was "bad" to say.
There is nothing wrong with the word retard or retarded. Use it if you want, F the word police.
no one has ever been offended by the word removed, unless they are getting offended on someone else's behalf to virtue signal
The word hasn't seen widespread use as a "disability slur" for a very long time. The great irony of this very vocal online minority continuing to fake offence and turn it into a political left vs right thing is that they are actually trying to take us back to the world in which the word has real power. If they were genuinely concerned about the word then they would just shut the fuck up and let it exist as the generic insult it has become.
I watched this episode and, unlike the comments in this thread, it wasn't removed until I slowed the playback speed down.