Encyclopedia Dramatica:Article of the Now/February 1, 2022

The R Word

The R Word is a national campaign to eliminate the use of the word retard from the English language and not a spin off of that show the L Word. Apparently, retards have feelings, and every time you use the word "retard", you make them feel sad inside and... well... retarded. The campaign suggests that instead you could say "loid", an acronym for "Lexically Or Intellectually Disabled" - the campaigners don't seem to realize this is short for mongoloid, which is an even more offensive term for tard, and surprising logic that the general point of an insult is to offend. Now prima facie it doesn't really seem to make much sense to ban a word which is used in medical definitions. Realizing this, the retards have provided the following compelling argument.

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