political correctness is RETARDED!
So last night I'm watching "I Love The 80's", and they get to LA Law. There's a really funny black comedienne on there, and she was commenting on Benny, the mentally retarded character who was on the show. She said, "I really liked the retarded guy". But what you heard was "I really liked the BLEEEEEP guy."
Gimme a break!!! There is nothing wrong with saying someone is retarded, if they are retarded. "Mentally retarded" is a descriptive term, not a derogatory term. If you look up 'retarded' in the dictionary, you do not see "stupid and worthy of mockery" as a definition. What should she have said instead? Anything the PC Police would have substituted means the very same thing. Just because the word 'retarded' has found its way into the lexicon of every grade-school kid doesn't mean we should erase it from adults' vocabulary. This all goes back to trying not to offend people; whereupon I refer you all to Sixate's thread on offending people.
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