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.worldBannedEnglish
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      5 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.worldBannedEnglish
          106·
          5 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.