{"id":709,"date":"2026-05-28T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:06:56","slug":"liberal-rag-upset-to-find-people-still-call-stuff-retarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Rag Upset To Find People Still Call Stuff Retarded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liberal internet blog HuffPost is very upset that the use of \u201cretard\u201d to refer to things or people perceived as, well, retarded, is making a comeback after allegedly having been relegated to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n

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The left-wing blog laments that the \u201cugly descriptor\u201d \u2014 they mean \u201cretarded\u201d \u2014 has made \u201can unfortunate comeback.\u201d Notably, HuffPost is currently owned by the financially troubled GIF and listicle-based media company Buzzfeed \u2014 a business model that could be argued to be \u201cretarded\u201d \u2014 which is itself in the process of being bought out by race-hustler and self-styled comedian Byron Allen.<\/p>\n

As an example of \u201cretard\u2019s\u201d march back into history, the blog focuses almost exclusively on the term\u2019s use in the hit show Euphoria<\/em>. In fact, most of the HuffPost \u2026 post \u2026 appears to be more of a gripe about Euphoria<\/em> than even the allegedly insidious return of \u201cretard\u201d to the English language.<\/p>\n

The spectre of Euphoria<\/em> 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\u2019t call Sydney Sweeney retarded \u2014 that will make a lot of people on the right and left mad. (RELATED: Sydney Sweeney Flings Underwear Into Crowd At Stagecoach)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSome theorize the slur\u2019s return coincided with a wider backlash against the hyper-policed language culture of the early 2020s,\u201d the blog\u2019s author, Ian Kumamoto, writes. \u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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First, if there is a field of retard theory, I\u2019ve missed my calling \u2014 I\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n

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Still, HuffPost insists that Sweeney \u2014 along with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk and Kid Rock \u2014 comprises the four horsemen of the retard apocalypse, \u201d helping reintroduce it into the mainstream.\u201d Things have gotten so retarded that the author states, \u201cEven in deeply progressive spaces, including my own circles in liberal Brooklyn, I\u2019ve noticed younger people, many of them left-leaning, slipping the word back into everyday lexicon.\u201d (RELATED: Kid Rock Shocks Jesse Watters Into Fit Of Laughter When He Reveals Halloween Costume)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The return of retard, HuffPost insists, is because of \u201cexhaustion.\u201d They contend that folks \u201cfeel burned out by the language politics of the social media era\u201d \u2014 they do \u2014 and that \u201cmorality can feel performative\u201d \u2014 it does.<\/p>\n

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However, the blog gets one thing very wrong. The return of retard isn\u2019t because\u00a0 it is a \u201cslur people feel strangely comfortable making exceptions for in order to appear not \u2018too woke.’\u201d No, the return of retard is simply because the word is funny. Its most fundamental meaning is \u201cto slow down\u201d or \u201cdelay progress\u201d \u2014 simply put, it means dumb.<\/p>\n

And in the latter lies the crux of why HuffPost doesn\u2019t 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 \u2014 often far more progressed than most progressives \u2014 of individuals who have some form of cognitive disability. Heck, we nearly had an actually retarded vice president!<\/p>\n

To quote another critically acclaimed show, Shameless<\/em> \u2014 which did far more to revive the word retard than Euphoria<\/em> ever did \u2014 \u201cHow are we going to talk about it if you can\u2019t even say it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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