The "R" Word is the New "N" Word
 

I was making super last night and Glee came on. I told my kid to shut that crap off. Before she did there was a Public Service Announcement about Ending The "R" Word.

Now what am I going to call my kids when the do something stupid?

http://www.r-word.org/r-word-why-pledge.aspx

Is Idiot still acceptable?

Just makes me want to say it more. And louder.

R E T A R D

OMG I said it. I'm evvviiillL! :#

I made super last night with Sofa King's mom.
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Call them reeruns.

Yes, but reerun is better.

It's ok for YOU to say it.
It's like when homosexuals call each-other bundle of sticks or queer. Or when blacks drop the N-bomb at one another. That's completely acceptable for some reason. :D
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You can never understand the plight of the reerun man. We reeruns understand so we can talk like this to each other.

Up here we say "retahd", so it's ok.

Nah, youah retahded. Go Red Sawks! Nomah Gahciaparrah is Gawd!

I find this to be somewhat reeruned.

I'll admit that I don't allow the use of the word (as an insult at least) in my classroom. The reason being that I teach quite a few special ed. students, and they've likely had that word used on them in a derogatory fashion in the past.

But how does one go about ending a word?
What does it become.....?

Using words in a demeaning stereotypical manner is pretty gay. You have to be reeruned to do that. Or at least handicapped.

I see a Username change in your future...

That would be kinda awesome.

mentally handicapped takes so long to say. I'm sticking with reerun, or tard for short

Still that guy

Yeah, I get that. I don't let me kids use the word either.

Personally, I'm horrible about using that word on message boards. I am, however, trying my ass off to have my kids be a hell of a lot better person that their old man. At least I'm smart enough to recognize my faults and short-comings while raising my kids.;)

The point is that, as it's being used right now, it doesn't mean mentally handicapped. When someone calls someone a "tard" or "reeruned" they're just using it as a generic insult. It could just as easily be substituted with "idiot", "moron", "dumbass" etc...

The difference is that reeruned is the clinical term for a specific medical condition of mental reerunation. When you use the clinical term as an insult, then it's demeaning to that group of people who actually live in the condition of reerunation.

I know this is Political Correctness 101, and I'm not big on PC. I am, however, big on not being insulting and demeaning to people who life has already ****ed over pretty severely.

I wouldn't use it around a reerun

Ok, so we quit saying reerun and we start saying "mentally challenged" or something gay like that. Over time, the term "mentally challenged" will begin to be used as an insult too. We can call them "ments" or "challengers" or something. The point is that when there is an undesireable condition, such as reerunation, it can and will always be used as an insult. Words are just words...the meaning behind the words is what matters, and that can't be changed.

Yeah, I'm horrible as well. There are certain situations (like sitting around bullshitting with my friends) where I'm as crude, foul, and inappropriate as any human can be (my group of friends and I sort of have an unspoken, running game to see who can be the most inappropriate and shocking... who can make the statement that leaves everyone saying, "You didn't just say that did you?"). But that's among my group of friends, and we're often being satirical anyway in what we're saying.

There are other situations (like hanging out with people who I have no idea of their lives or the lives of their loved ones) where I try not to be such an asshole.

LMAO

The NAAA (National Association For The Advancement Of Assholes) just called and said their lawyers will be in contact. Assholes have been slandered for centuries. The asshole is a very important part of the human body and, without one, we would die. The asshole has been demeaned and ridiculed unfairly for far too long!

And I'll just add that as the parent of a child with borderline IQ (and there are others on here) who will likely be called reeruned quite often as he goes through school, I have a personal stake in this.

I can't understand the difference between somebody calling him a reerun, idiot, stupid, or dumbass. They all suck equally to me...

Hmmm....Well then this will lead to we can't use the word gay either because that would be wrong too. I have seen the use of the word "gay" in this thread in a way that has nothing to do with being happy or homosexual. So that is innapropriate too. Where does it all stop.
Why don't we just all realize to toughen up. Or a way to desensatize every word that is not used in its correct manner.

Yes. The use of gay in that way is pretty much frowned upon as well. Most of the people using it in the thread are doing so intentionally and ironically because they're aware of this fact.

didn't get cooter stubble on yer tounge did ya?:hmmm:

Question...

So from now on when I am adjusting the timing on a vehicle, does that mean I am either making the timing, "Mentally Challanged" or "Gifted?"
You know, depending on which way I rotate the distributor.

This is exactly why I've changed over to calling people ****tard.

i used to say it. i hate the word, now.

right or wrong, i feel that those who are/become close to someone that has this type of handicap become more aware of its meaning. we want to shield them from any type of harm. that includes words.

this is the wrong place to try and preach, or change others. i try not to do it. i know i have enough problems myself, so i don't comment when people use the word. it is what it is.

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They are probably right ... it's just not a very nice word to use. My generation grew up using it all the time as a generic term for something being dumb so it's difficult to stop.

i've been trying to not use it anymore.


i suppose that makes me a libby tree hugger but then again i supposedly love the rich too so i dunno :shrug:

Don't call anybody crazy either. Some nutjob somewhere is liable to get offended.

This. Exactly this. I'm not in support of some big national crackdown on its use or anything. I'm fine with people just being made aware that it can be hurtful... because people when they say it have no intent of being truly hurtful (especially on a bystander who isn't even the target of the epithet). If they're aware, and they still choose to use it... that's on them.

No! No! No! Use the W word instead...

WETAWDED!

WE TODD DID

I don't say it when there are reeruns around.

The whole problem is that we're focusing on the intent of the word, and not the word itself.

reerun is a verb, first and foremost. Not an offensive verb, just a verb that means "to make slow, or delay development". And as a noun, it's an innocent mechanical device. The only reason anyone sees it as an insult is because those people gave it meaning that it did not previously have.

Now sensitive people want to force the entire population to not only accept this new meaning that wasn't previously there, but to completely eliminate it's use as well.

We get easily outraged when others do this sort of behavior in other areas of our life. What makes it OK when dealing with language and words?

We're attacking this completely backwards. The negativity resides in the individual using the words, not from the words themselves. Remove the hate from the individual, and the words they use are just words again.

actually I use douchebag and douchebaggery much more now to describe an idiot or the idiotic thing they did

I saw that same PSA. My daughter was watching the show in the living room while I was goofing around on here. I have to say, when they opened with the "N" word it got my attention. I try to watch my language but stuff does slip out. I do understand what they were trying to say.

Wait, wait, wait...

Why the outrage? reeruns are not reeruns anymore, they are mentally challenged, this is the mantra I always hear.

So that means reerun is fair game, cause the old skool reeruns are mentaly challenged now.

Women with stinky crotches everywhere are offended (but yeah, I say d-bag pretty often).

Dumbasses.

Exactly.

I know you are but what am i?



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No. The word reeruned, in its proper meanings, isn't being questioned. The use of it as an insult is.

As a born dumbass, i'm offended. :harumph:

I just now read the article. All this time I was thinking that I couldn't call the guy who handles my sailboat rigging a rigger any more.

Then why can't people focus the use of insults in whatever form that takes, instead of sacrificing language? The word is simply a vessel for hatred. Not much differently than a knife or a gun. The knife or gun is not inherently evil. It's useless to hate the knife that stabbed someone. Why do we try to hate the word that hurt someone? Which in and of itself is harmless?

I liken this to society burning books they don't agree with. By eliminating the book, you're not eliminating the meaning or intent someone gave the book. You're just eliminating the vessel, while it's given intent remains and can easily take another form or another vessel. We're trying to control the symptoms instead of the source.

I thought it was about calling people the r-word (racist) for using the n-word.

**** this PC shit.

And the reeruns pushing it.

Dude... Really?

Your sarcasm meter is ****ing reeruned.
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I realized that you were being funny. What I didn't know was whether you truly understood the rationale.

The other day, one of the cable networks had a "Star Trek" movie marathon. It was striking when they got to the scene in "Voyage Home" where Chekhov gets caught on the nuclear submarine, and they're interviewing him, and he's not understanding the questions and giving them dumb answers. The interrogators lean back and one of them says, "What do you think?" The other says, "I think he's a Russkie." The first says, "Of course he's a Russkie, but he's a reerun or something." I remember that being a ha-ha line in the theaters when it came out. Nowadays, they'd never get away with using that line.

I'm buying stock in the "M" word.

FAX

I'll stick with the old, tested-by-time one I've told my kids for years ...

"Don't make people think your a Donk fan ..... "

Rain Man did it and he was a ratard

To Late...youngest son is already a Donk Fan. How it happened????

Use whatever words you want.

Well, i don't see it as profane, but it is for sure disrespectful

I probably shouldn't use the word, but life goes on. Obla di, obla da, life goes on. Ladadada life goes on.

I can't believe none of you reeruns realize this is a repost.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=204600

Now, is it still ok to call people, "vegetables"?

not if they are fruits

You don't know what it's like. You aren't close to any vegetables. You don't eat your vegetables on a regular basis. You don't realize how much it hurts my carrots when people call tomatoes vegetables. :shake:

I do feel for them. It makes me cry sometimes when I cut onions.

In Boston they say, "Retahded!"

Sounds like "re-todd-ed."

To be used in conjunction with, "wicked."

See the following statement: "You see them Lightning fans? ****in wicked retahded."

I prefer the Chiefsplanet version fugtard.

In all honesty, I can see where this word is insensitive and more or less picks on the weakest segment of our society. I think whoman has offered the correct answer for all of us.

****ing netarded riggers.

But in actual seriousness, word have absolutely no meaning other than that which you give them. No one can ever make you offended, you choose to be offended and you can choose not to be offended. If you are offended by what someone says the problem isn't theirs, it's yours.

This.

Also, WORD FILTER EVASION.

Louis CK has a great bit about the "N" word, look it up and laugh

Saying reeruned is like making fun of the Amish at a comedy club... Yes, it's probably not the nicest thing to do, but who cares? It's not like the reeruned person is a) aware of the word's connotations and b) there are no Amish people in comedy clubs.

On top of that... the medical community uses the term mental reerunation. Which means the development of mental functions has been reeruned and slowed down. So they are, in fact, reeruned.

I don't understand why this is an issue, personally...

My wife's a special education teacher, and she (and I) use the word fairly regularly when describing something that's stupid. However, if anyone ever called one of her students reeruned, they'd regret it pretty quickly.

As others have said, the word itself is fine. The insult isn't.

So, if I were to say the following, "DaFace, you're a damn reerun!" That would not be ok however, if I were to say, "DaFace, that post is reeruned." We'd be cool, right?
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you're an idiot ... plenty of mentally handicapped people understand being insulted.