Popa Is Retarded. By, Popa

“I think that leaves….”

Is that like a pun popa tea leaves??

Pet peeve of mine- can we please use another adjective over ‘retarded’. It bothers me when this word is just thrown around.

Pet peeve of mine- can we please use another adjective over ‘retarded’. It bothers me when this word is just thrown around.

Flame

Retarted just means slow. First of all this means Popa himself may be (gasp) retarted. Second of all, it isn’t an offensive way of describing a negative attribute, just a negative attribute. If people get insulted from non-insults, that’s their own prerogative.

happiest: You are right. Derech Eretz, people. There is no reason to use this special needs classification as a pejorative. Think of those who have mentally retarded siblings, children, students. I know I will get flamed for this, but I think it’s just mean and wrong.

The terms mental retardation and mentally retarded were invented in the middle of the 20th century to replace the previous set of terms, which were deemed to have become offensive. By the end of the 20th century, these terms themselves have come to be widely seen as disparaging and politically incorrect and in need of replacement.

In other words, any term used to describe something or someone in a negative way will eventually be considered disparaging.

Much like certain terms which describe members of various ethnic groups.

DY: The term has to keep on changing thanks to people like Popa who use it in disparagement.

popa-

if you’re offending so many people than why don’t you just stop using the term?? even if you don’t understand why it is offensive, obviously if so many ppl. are uncomfortable than something is not quite kosher with it! thank you!

Popa- How do you know that someone who doesn’t post is reading it but chooses not to comment. You don’t know that people are not getting offended reading this.

Popa- if you don’t understand it yourself, then maybe you should re-evaluate who is the retarded one here…

popa,

No, I didn’t mean to say they are bad. I meant that it is bad to be retarded.

Yes, I knew that (in fact , I even said it!)

I think the reason people think it’s offensive is because it is often used as a pejorative. If I call you “retarded”, I’m insulting you. Now if someone who has a developmentally disabled child hears that, they’re offended, because I’ve used a description of their child as a term of belittlement.

Sort of how your mother might feel if I started calling anyone in the CR who said something silly a “popa”.

Now do I get $20?

Actually, it probably does. Go figure.

Racial terms are also descriptive, yet you agree they’re offensive.

How about “blind” or “deaf”?

A good kasha. I would differentiate by pointing out that mentally retarded people were looked down upon more than deaf or blind people, so it’s more comparable to a racial epithet.

Also, you didn’t address the chiluk I made, in terms of a secondary meaning.

You’re right, I kind of missed it.

Now that I look at it, your chiluk (and I assume you’re referring to the fatso comparison) would be true if people weren’t insulted when being called fatso. This is probably worse, though, because I imagine that someone having a developmentally disabled child would be whole lot more sensitive about it than if they had an overweight child.

All that having been said, whatever the reason, I think it’s considered PC to avoid the term, and considered somewhat crude to use it.

I thought popa wanted the Starbucks crazy thread closed. Which one was it, pba?

Daas- could be you’re right. I just assumed it was this one since it seemed like he was getting dumped on in this thread.

I guess I shouldn’t assume anything anymore:)

Retarded has indeed taken on a second meaning – you even use it that way! You don’t literally mean that someone who overspends on tea, or doesn’t chap that they could buy a coffee and spill it out, is mentally retarded; you are disparaging their (or your) lack of astuteness.

It’s primary meaning is someone with limited IQ, it’s secondary meaning is an insult.

I thought you meant something else, does that make me retarded? 🙂

Hey Popa, you got a new subtitle! (You don’t find it offensive, do you?)

Moron (psychology)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moron is a term once used in psychology to denote mild mental retardation.[1] The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement.[2] Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.

Origin and uses

“Moron” was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard[3] from the Ancient Greek word ????? (moros), which meant “dull”[4] (as opposed to oxy, which meant “sharp”), and used to describe a person with a mental age in adulthood of between 8 and 12 on the Binet scale.[5] It was once applied to people with an IQ of 51-70, being superior in one degree to “imbecile” (IQ of 26-50) and superior in two degrees to “idiot” (IQ of 0-25). The word moron, along with others including, “idiotic,” “imbecilic,” “stupid,” and “feeble-minded,” was formerly considered a valid descriptor in the psychological community, but it is now deprecated in use by psychologists.[6]

Following opposition to Goddard’s attempts to popularize his ideas,[7] Goddard recanted his earlier claims about the moron: “It may still be objected that moron parents are likely to have imbecile or idiot children. There is not much evidence that this is the case. The danger is probably negligible.”[8]

definitely popa’s best subtitle yet….

This thread is so Polish 🙂