A three-time Trump voter was left devastated after the immigration policies of the president he repeatedly supported resulted in his wife being taken away.
Tech salesman and former MAGA supporter Brent Jindra, 48, was stunned when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained his wife, Galina Bobreneva, after the couple landed at Burbank Airport in California, The New York Times reported.
“A U.S. citizen just watched his wife get dragged away and had no idea where she was going,” Jindra, who voted for President Donald Trump, 80, because of his promises of strict immigration enforcement, recalled of the day.
“Wahhhh, I was so fucking retarded, I voted against my own best interests and now I want sympathy”
Live shamed, and die empty, you worthless, Nazi collaborating, pedophile supporting, waste of a human life…
I humbly request that you consider eliminating the “R” word from your vocabulary.
Folks here and here make the case better than I could.
I’m sure no harm was intended, but harm is still caused by that word. The folks to whom it applies are well aware of it and know it’s about them, whether you mean it to be or not.
My wife used to teach at an adult day school for adults with developmental and cognitive disabilities. She taught, among other things, Shakespeare. When I say that her students learned the material, I mean they’d sit around and discuss it. They knew it better than I did (although in fairness, I’ve never been much into Shakespeare).
It’s just a word that feels like it doesn’t harm, but it does. I used to use it years ago until someone pointed this out to me, and now I hope that I can help end the usage of it.
If you read this far, I thank you for doing that, no matter which option you choose. <3
How would you rewrite that part of the sentence that used the “R” word? It seems like “idiot” and “stupid” (edit: “moron”) are also terms with historical baggage, and likely fall into the same category of being a slur. Or is it just because the “R” word is still in use by the medical field? I suppose “dumbass” is the first word that comes to mind without historical (or current?) baggage, and I’m personally fine to use that term to replace all the others above. But the links you provided don’t really give guidance on how to express the above in a “safe” alternative way (note the original was an internal thought); I guess I’m here proposing that everyone just use “dumbass” (shout out to “Red”).
Edit: I guess “dumb” also has its problems; perhaps even “fool”?
There are so many fun words to use!
You can also make new ones.
Like their father being a hamster, and their mother smelling of elderberries.
Ahah, a person of culture!
Historic baggage maybe, but certainly not current baggage. The “R” word has current baggage.
And that’s the difference.
Yes, language changes, and we adjust - “colored” used to be the preferred word when discussing black people.
My dear friend, a lovely, kind and caring father, has a daughter born with some challenges. She’s profoundly autistic, as I recall. Her path and potential are not the same as ours.
My friend talks with his doc often, as required, as in his area the care for his daughter is strong and consistent.
The doctor said, and says, that my friend’s wonderful little girl is removed in her intellectual development. That’s the word he uses. That’s the word my dear friend uses when he talks about his universe when she is sitting in his lap. There’s no malice there, and he says it as matter-of-factly as one would say “she has brown hair”.
My dear friend, who is a great guy in every respect - I’m a little jealous - heard this word from his doctor, and uses this word when relevant am And referring to his little girl whom he obviously loves with all his heart.
I’m not a great guy. I’m not a doctor. I’m not a social justice warrior. I am not going to invite wrath by volunteering such a word, as English is a language steered by vapid ticktock fame-whores and that word has been co-opted. It’s so fetch to reduce clarity in speech, so like, share and subscribe. But I’m not in a position or need to ‘correct’ what a doctor told a kind and caring person is the correct word to describe his beautiful child.
You be you.
If by “removed” you mean the R word, yes. Saying that someone’s cognitive development has been retarded is no different than saying that by throwing an anchor out into the ocean, a ship’s speed is retarded.
Context is important.
Those usages are completely different than the epithet of the R word when used to mean “stupid”. It is being used pejoritively.
If you use valid uses of the word to defend pejoritive uses, then that is your choice to do so. In my book, it reflects poorly on you.
And that’s the fucking point.
By referring to Nazis with that word you associate people who have no choice but to have their development medically described with that word to Nazis. That’s who you might hurt, harmless folk who don’t deserve to be associated with Nazis because you can’t find more creative ways to insult a bunch of absolute scumbags.
I don’t know why you feel the need to cause unnecessary pain to those with disabilities, but that’s your choice to do so.
I don’t know how I expected “wahhhh” to be spelled, but I always immediately read it in Wario’s voice.
Let’s a go!