i think people need to look the word "retarded" up in the dictionary.

This video was retarded.

It doesn't matter what the word used is its what sum one means when they say a word .

Instead of complaing how people use some words and words changing meaning and getting upset by it concentration on doing videos that show people that have disabilities functioning in society and help enable them to function in society. The type of people that use the word "RETARD" and mean it are not going to stop bassed of this moronic video.

[EDIT] unfunny joke removed

Moving this video to rottenseed's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Look, ma! A whole legion of Rosemary Kennedys!

Of course being retarded is a bad thing. If it wasn't a bad thing, why do parents of disabled children need to take so much money from the public tit to support their 'differently abled' children.

Blame our insufficient level of science, which isn't able to cure your children.

Also blame sentimentalism for making these parents refuse to abort retarded fetuses. Most retarded children are the choice of the parents.

It's not the word that's offensive, it's the sentiment behind the delivery. If we replace "retarded" with "differently abled" then the mean people will start to use "differently abled" as an insult, and then after a few decades society will complain that THAT is offensive, so we'll replace it with "fleep norb floon", which will in turn get picked up by the mean people, and a hundred years from now no one will be allowed to say "fleep norb floon" on the radio or TV.

The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30. ANY term used to describe someone with limited mental capacity will eventually become "offensive" because it is an undesirable condition. We can keep changing the word, but it will never be a compliment.

>> ^garmachi:

It's not the word that's offensive, it's the sentiment behind the delivery. If we replace "retarded" with "differently abled" then the mean people will start to use "differently abled" as an insult, and then after a few decades society will complain that THAT is offensive, so we'll replace it with "fleep norb floon", which will in turn get picked up by the mean people, and a hundred years from now no one will be allowed to say "fleep norb floon" on the radio or TV.


All I can say is, as an actor looking to win Oscar gold, never go full fleep norb floon.