Liberal Rag Upset To Find People Still Call Stuff Retarded

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Liberal Rag Upset To Find People Still Call Stuff Retarded

Liberal internet blog HuffPost is very upset that the use of “retard” to refer to things or people perceived as, well, retarded, is making a comeback after allegedly having been relegated to the dustbin of history.

The left-wing blog laments that the “ugly descriptor” — they mean “retarded” — has made “an unfortunate comeback.” Notably, HuffPost is currently owned by the financially troubled GIF and listicle-based media company Buzzfeed — a business model that could be argued to be “retarded” — which is itself in the process of being bought out by race-hustler and self-styled comedian Byron Allen.

As an example of “retard’s” march back into history, the blog focuses almost exclusively on the term’s use in the hit show Euphoria. In fact, most of the HuffPost … post … appears to be more of a gripe about Euphoria than even the allegedly insidious return of “retard” to the English language.

The spectre of Euphoria looming over the post has become a run-of-the-mill trope for leftist writers, mostly because they do not seem to like Sydney Sweeney (and her great genes, or is it jeans?) Just don’t call Sydney Sweeney retarded — that will make a lot of people on the right and left mad. (RELATED: Sydney Sweeney Flings Underwear Into Crowd At Stagecoach)

“Some theorize the slur’s return coincided with a wider backlash against the hyper-policed language culture of the early 2020s,” the blog’s author, Ian Kumamoto, writes. “After years of public callouts, many young people developed a resentment toward what they saw as performative political correctness. Around 2022, when the horrors of the pandemic felt like they were behind us, I remember hearing the first rumblings of the R-word being used again.”

First, if there is a field of retard theory, I’ve missed my calling — I’d be the Stephen Hawking for the entire discipline (minus the trip to Epstein Island). Second, I can only conclude that the folks at HuffPost have never played Call of Duty or spent any time around relatively well-adjusted people who are unfazed and unharmed by the vocalized or written word.

Still, HuffPost insists that Sweeney — along with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk and Kid Rock — comprises the four horsemen of the retard apocalypse, ” helping reintroduce it into the mainstream.” Things have gotten so retarded that the author states, “Even in deeply progressive spaces, including my own circles in liberal Brooklyn, I’ve noticed younger people, many of them left-leaning, slipping the word back into everyday lexicon.” (RELATED: Kid Rock Shocks Jesse Watters Into Fit Of Laughter When He Reveals Halloween Costume)

The return of retard, HuffPost insists, is because of “exhaustion.” They contend that folks “feel burned out by the language politics of the social media era” — they do — and that “morality can feel performative” — it does.

However, the blog gets one thing very wrong. The return of retard isn’t because it is a “slur people feel strangely comfortable making exceptions for in order to appear not ‘too woke.’” No, the return of retard is simply because the word is funny. Its most fundamental meaning is “to slow down” or “delay progress” — simply put, it means dumb.

And in the latter lies the crux of why HuffPost doesn’t understand the comeback of retard. People of all ranges of intellectual capacity can be retarded. The term, long ago, became unmoored from its past meaning for a group — often far more progressed than most progressives — of individuals who have some form of cognitive disability. Heck, we nearly had an actually retarded vice president!

To quote another critically acclaimed show, Shameless — which did far more to revive the word retard than Euphoria ever did — “How are we going to talk about it if you can’t even say it?”