The recent very serious edition of the Washington Post tackled the question of Retards: what of this word, “retard”? Are there perhaps pros and cons to the word “retard,” and can we divide the competing arguments into two page-filling columns, from “retard” experts? What can the art department gin up for a “retard” debate?
Okay, got it: for the pro-retard, bring out the ol’ eternally-missing-the-point stock column, “[This word], too, is protected under Free Speech.” The word in this case will be “retard.” If “retard” is a word (presumptuous?), and we are allowed to say any word, because of the Constitution, then what are people so worked up about?
For the anti-retard, get Tim (it’s Tim, yes?) Shriver to fax over one of his “Why retard is a mean word” columns that he keeps by the toilet.
Objectivity remains key, and interactivity is also a thing: get a poll that asks people: Should we outlaw a really mean word, or would the Constitution make that unconstitutional? Because there’s no clear answer. And why won’t Obama bomb Iran anyway?
Illustration: This is how “retards” would write out the word “retard.” Vertically, unaligned, scratchy, and with little snow bullets clamoring at the gates.
Defending the R-Word [WP]
The bigotry behind the word “retard” [WP]
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This whole “debate” is so fucking Palin.
So this makes the rest of us, what, protards?
Thought RETARDant, also.
I’m confused, which side are you faggots on?
Jimminies, it’s about time that the WaPo focused on hard news.
Why don’t they just ask the actual retards who write most of the Post opinion page what they think?
What a bunch of retards.
I wasn’t aware that someone was trying to ban the r-word. I bet it’s awesome for fundraising, though!
It’s impossible for most people to read the Post without thinking it, over and over again.
Ha ha. Still won’t save the Post. We should start a death pool.
[re=513039]memzilla[/re]: To correct myself: anyone who takes what WaPo writes as actual “journalism” is a potard.
Question: Is it OK to say that something/someone is “gay”, where “gay” is taken to mean “retarded”?
Example sentence: “Tim Shriver is gay.” actually means “Tim Shriver is retarded.”.
Read about retard, only in the Washington Post!
It will take a retard being elected President to finally prove to the world that the USA means equality for all. Then, perhaps we can close the door on this divisive term. Dubya was no retard, but merely an idiot. Let’s have a true retard in the White House.
Palin/Bachmann ’12
As for the headline “America’s Greatest Newspapers” – there is only one left that is even decent.
I’m siding with the Black Eyed Peas on this one.
My Fantasy of the WaPo Art Dept:
So we need a picture for the piece on retards, hunh? Hey, Jimmie, dig up copies of Richie Cohen and David Broder’s byline photos and ‘shop em together so they’re doin’ it. Fuckin’ retards.
So what gem of a topic will Sarah Palin dig up for the dipshits at WaPo to write about next?
[re=513058]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: I’m telling you, ya have ta keep yr morans, idiots and imbeciles straight. If you don’t get it, “look in the dictionary” as the olds say.
wapo going tabloid, that’s retard.
[re=513058]RoscoePColtraine[/re]:
Palin/NH wriggling in excrement lady 2012
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[re=513059]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: An that one’s The Onion.
I just call ‘em Trigs.
[re=513062]Sweet Baby Cheeses[/re]: Oh crap, I hope I can still say dipshits. Why do I hate Trig?!?!
F everyone, I don’t like the word in any context.
Isn’t trig technically a PREtard at this point, devolopmentaly speaking? At some point his contemporaries will surpass him and he will become retarded, but at this point his retardedness is only potential. Or am I missing something?
[re=513060]BarackMyWorld[/re]: Yes. Lets get retarded, ya’ll.
Has noone noticed that Chris from The Family Guy dated a retard, on last night’s show, on their retarded dinner date, he asked her about her parents and she said “My mom is an ex-governor of Alaska.” Here, here, Mr. MacFarland, you may be a bit of a douche, but my god, what great blazing humungous brass balls you have!
Yes, because this debate isn’t about whether it’s medically descriptive, contextually dependent, politically loaded, etc, but rather whether or not the word should be LEGALLY ALLOWED AS FREE SPEECH.
God, I hate the WaPo so much.
Sure, ban the R word. If I never hear anyone say Republican again for the rest of my life, that will be just fine.
[re=513074]Prommie[/re]: Even a retarded clock is funny twice a day.
[re=513062]Sweet Baby Cheeses[/re]: So what gem of a topic will Sarah Palin dig up for the dipshits at WaPo to write about next?
Exactly! When will the Dems figure that out? If even one Democratic Senator would start talking about Cheney being a draft dodger and even knocking up Mrs. C. to avoid Vietnam, then we could have a nice debate about whether the term “chicken-hawk” is offensive.
…morans, idiots and imbeciles… They are all RETARDs, just like a cabbage, a carrot and a lettuce plant are all VEGETABLES. Imbeciles are very close to being vegetables, also, too.
Exactly what single word would Palin propose for someone of diminished mental capacity that wouldn’t be perjorative? And don’t say “beautiful, special child.” (Example: John Boehner is God’s gift of a beautiful, special child.)
[re=513053]SmutBoffin[/re]: Only if you also take “retarded” to mean “gay”
Also, would this mean no lib-tards or Paul-tards?
What about Evan’s Bayhtarded kids?
Evan Bayh running for President – now that’s retarded!
What about when you want to tell someone that you think they’re retarded by crossing your eyes, sticking your tongue out, hitting your shoulder with a limp wrist and saying “duh, duh, duh, duh”.
That’s still OK right?
[re=513074]Prommie[/re]: I think intentionally watching an episode of The Family Guy is grounds for being legally declared a retard.
[re=513084]WadISay[/re]: It’s not the word; it’s who says it. Remember, it’s perfectly OK for Limbaugh to call Democrats retarded!
[re=513092]TheCoolestGuyInTown[/re]: Yes, that is perfectly fine.
[re=513093]JMP[/re]: Snob.
[re=513053]SmutBoffin[/re]: [re=513085]pampl[/re]: “It’s raining tards, hallelujah!”
Burning issues
Even a retarded clock is funny twice a day.
Not if it’s digital.
You gotta tard before you retard.
WaPo, not heeding the cautionary tales of Sean Penn and Tugg Speedman, has gone full retard. You never go full retard.
[expletive][expletive][expletive][expletive][expletive][expletive]!!1!!!
Tards, man, they’re just like you and me. Let’s not call them retarded. Let’s call ourselves retarded. How retarded are we?
I’ve had retards tell me they were retarded. So Suck. On. That. Sarah.
She’s not so much protecting Trig as she’s ashamed of him. Kinda like the Cheney’s were “protecting” their gay daughter. It’s not so much the word they find offensive as the condition it describes.
[re=513111]DC Hates Me[/re]: “How retarded are we?”
Today we are all SO FUCKING retarded.
It’s all in the pronunciation. Just say re-TARD instead of RE-tard and tell ‘em you’re French.
“En retard” in French means “late”. They’ll have to change their whole language or President Palin will most likely declare war on France and Quebec.
Thought we were over the retard thing.
JuST SEEMS TO ENCOURAGE THEM.
[re=513121]Joshua Norton[/re]: President Palin will have to get back to ya on this, but for now her official statement is that Quebec is in France.
\Re*tard”\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retarded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Retarding}.] [L. retardare, retardatum; pref. re- re- +
tardare to make slow, to delay, fr. tardus slow: cf. F.
retarder. See {Tardy}.]
1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from
progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to
hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the
motion of a ship; — opposed to {accelerate}.
2. To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old
age; to retard a rupture between nations.
Syn: To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay;
procrastinate; postpone; defer.
yeah, look at that, that’s what mister webster has to say about it. so mean, so repressive, so worthy of suppression or even annihilation.
a bas las retard!
but wait… they came for retard, and i said nothing, for i was not retard; they came for thoughtful, and i said nothing, for i was not thoughtful; they came for average, and i said nothing, for i was mortified by my mediocrity; and when at last they came for me, i said nothing, for all the words had already been banned. all i could do was grunt, scratch, scream and scram.
[re=513126]foulmouthed mrscreant[/re]: And vice versa. Also.
[re=513102]Joshua Norton[/re]: Now, you and I both know that Seth Macfarlane and Sarah Palin would not be able to work out between them how to operate one o’ them fancy digital clocks.
This whole issue and discussion is just retarded.
It is now so obvious that Sarah had the retarded baby on purpose so she could score political points against the pro-retards.
She went to the sperm bank and told them, “Fill it up with the best broken chromosomes you got”.
If Ms. Palin is not careful, she may one day find herself hoist by her own retard.
[re=513051]memzilla[/re]:You say potardo, i say pootardo…
Let’s call the whole thing off.
I had no idea Gerson was a homo who doesn’t swallow:
Jesus of Nazareth argued, “It is not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
[re=513150]Katydid[/re]: Unless….
He’s one of those bastards who forces the other guy to swallow, whether he wants to or not. My reading may be off.
Y’all know what’s next, right? Palin is going to have an Op-Ed piece about her expertise surrounding the “r” word. It’ll be “r” word against hers. “We need more Trigs, not less.”
(I kinda like using the “”r” word” anyhow, it emphasizes the vapidity that is Sarcoma Sarah.)
[re=513039]memzilla[/re]: Isn’t Pro ‘tard when you do it for a living?
This is just guerrilla marketing for the upcoming America Ferrara vehicle Our Family Wedding, featuring Carlos Mencia* as America’s character’s father.
*Opposite father-of-the-groom Forrest Whitaker. Talk about asymmetric casting.
What does Joe the not-plumber say?
[re=513141]richardwb1[/re]:
Ms. Palin is not careful, she may one day find herself hoist by her own retard.
Yup, because we all know about “r” word strong.
Just like to point out that Rahm didn’t say “retard.” He said “retarded.” There’s a ginormous difference. The latter means “slow,” or “slow-witted.” The former means “Sarah Palin.”
Joe ‘the Toilet Plunger’ is passed out behind the Ice Rink in Vacouver on Ripple.
How about plain old “dumb”? Or is that an insult to people who can’t speak?
[re=513109]Katydid[/re]: You forgot #7!
Coming from Oklahoma, the only time I say Tard is when I’m exhausted after a long day. Or there’s a new ep of Doctor Who coming up.
And before the conservatards destroyed the economy, I use to dream of hitting 65 and being retard.
This is so fucking retarded.
who wants yesterday’s paper? who wants yesterday’s news.
Wasn’t this “story” overriden by the snow catastrophe then Palin hand-note then Gibbs hand-note then more bigger blowing snow chaos then Afghanistan surge then maybe little bit o snow maybe tomorrow stories?
What kind of retarded media keeps this abortion alive when it was clear a week ago that it was a story without legs?
If you can’t use the word “retard,” what then is the correct collective noun for the Washington Post’s Editorial page
Instead of stigmatizing people why can’t we all just be differently-tarded or specially-tarded?
[re=513230]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: RNC
[re=513269]S.Luggo[/re]: Which of course means, “Retarded National Committee”.
It was OK to say Paultard or Hiltard or Obamatard, or even Fucktard. Lotsa people are even Saintarded for the Super Bowl Champs. Their night is tonight! Yay! When do the Fucktards get their night?
The fact that we even have to have a poll is offensive. Imagine Al Sharpton’s reaction if the New York Post had a poll about the word nigger.
Just wrong but because it involves a population of people who can’t defend themselves everyone turns their back. To the pollsters I say shame on you.
i’m with tim; i think one tard should be enough
[re=513043]S.Luggo[/re]: Somewhere somebody is starving to death, or getting genitally mutilated, or getting blown up by the Tallyban. Or feeding kids in India, or saving lives in Africa, or building a school in Kandohar. And THIS makes the WaPo.
Evan’s right. We are fucked up.
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