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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're not using "that's retarded" to refer to people with disabilities, what are you using it to refer to? What singers of the national anthem typically do at football games? This seems unlikely.

And yes, "that's crazy" also refers to people with disabilities, and it would be nice if people also stopped using "that's crazy" about things that do not involve mental illness.[/quote]

When someone say "that's retarded," they're referring to something generally being negative. If YOU are making the antiquated connection to people with disabilities, then that connection is wrongly being made in your mind. I don't view people with disabilities as "negative" - that's absurd. But sometimes life in general is filled with things that people address with negativity, because, well that's life.

When someone's says "that's stupid," do you think they're also automatically alluding to people with intellectual deficiencies? Or when someone says "that's, dumb," do you think it's a reference people unable to speak? Similarly, for "that's crazy?" Do you really truly think that when someone says "man, the icy roads were crazy!" that someone's directly referencing someone with mental illness?

Words and their usage evolve and change - it's not the word itself that is "bad." To flip out over hearing a word without actually using your mind to think about the evolution of usage, makes your so-called "argument" totally disingenuous. Context and nuance not only matter - they're pretty much everything in language, idioms, etc. [/quote]

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