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		dragonwriter on Oct 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Rel... "retard" (the noun) was offensive in the 80s, too. That was, in fact, usually the point of using it then.

dbg31415 on Oct 27, 2016 [–]

It really was't offensive. It was a term you used casually between friends to point out something indefensibly stupid. For example, using the term retard in a public forum in 2016. =P

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