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In reply to the discussion: Witness responds to suggestion that Trayvon lied before getting shot: ‘That’s real retarded, sir’ [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)"you're retarded".
She called something he said "retarded".
And why, exactly, did she do that? Because what he said was the greatest thing since sliced bread?
No. Because she felt that what he said was stupid. Idiotic. Unworthy. Repulsive.
IOW, she equated the word "retarded" with the state of something being bad and ugly.
OK...so, there's a reply above from a parent of an MR child. She is highly offended by that word. Go on up and tell her that people should identify her MR child with things that are bad, stupid, unworthy, repulsive, and ugly.
THAT is why DU defense of that word, when it's used to describe something the user finds stupid or idiotic, is so disgusting.
Ms. Jeantel didn't need to be a Rhodes Scholar, FGS. She could have said, "That's stupid" instead.