Is it true that you can't call people retarded anymore?
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Replying to @phl43
It's true. It was formerly used to politely avoid calling someone cognitively impaired or words to that effect. Once it established itself as meaning cognitively impaired, it became offensive, as all such successful euphemisms do.
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Oddly enough, calling someone cognitively impaired is totally fine
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Replying to @Louisthered @skyhookt and
If that catches on it'll be shortened to "cogimp" and then that will become offensive.
9:30 AM - 14 Feb 2021
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