alt Hacker Newshttps://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/r_word.html
> forcing language change seldom works, and ultimately, all they’re really doing is ushering us onto the next euphemism. They may banish “the R-word”, but soon enough, you’ll walk by a middle school playground and overhear “That movie was so developmentally disabled”.
I'm using "retard" because the term has extensive cultural baggage and everyone here has childhood memories of bullies labeling their victims as "retards". It hurts to have the label applied to you. For that reason I think these comments are going to stick with people once they leave this comments section.
So, you're trying to upset (former) bullying victims, while having the people you're trying to criticise dismiss you as a mere bully? I don't see how this is an effective strategy.
> “That movie was so developmentally disabled”.
Nobody says this, and it's been 14 years since this article was published. The euphemism treadmill continues up until people stop treating the attribute as slur-worthy – which was the primary goal of this campaign.
> For that reason I think these comments are going to stick with people once they leave this comments section.
No, this is going to stick with me, because it's an attitude that I find exceptionally annoying: constantly repeating "I have a noble cause, therefore I am in the right", when you've already said it once. I'm reasonably confident I'm going to forget the details of your message by the end of the week, because you are far from the only edgelord on the internet, and you all go into my mental bucket of "not worth listening to", but I will remember that you were obnoxious about whatever it is you were saying.