Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17970636-20160123014228/@comment-24572299-20160123021253

The thing seems to be a sort of oversensitiveness to words in general as far as I can tell, rather than it being directed at them or even at another person. For one said people might find "retarded" offensive but then will turn right around and call someone they don't like or agree with "stupid" with the two words basically being syonyms. Never mind that the informal use of the word "retarded" is often used to mean foolish or stupid and that the informal is what was used. Or that retard is an actual word used to mean "to delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment."

That would be similar to saying something is ghetto and someone telling me that I can't use the word because it is used "at the expense of a group." More than likely meaning either Black people or poor people and saying that because any one of them might be offended by that word choice I can't/shouldn't use it. Depending on the person they would probably shut up if I told them I was Black and used to reside in a lower income household. Or if they knew that first they would probably get offended for me which would honestly be more offensive than the word if I actually took umbridge with it. So while being offended is fine unless someone is being targeted by the words telling someone to shut up and not use that word is out of bounds. Especially seeing as I don't think curse words should be used in any polite setting. And if I said that I wanted people to stop cursing in chat I would be told, with full notion of knowing it would be spitting in the face of what I just said, to "fuck off".