But lame, like spaz, and retard became a slur because it was used to compare healthy people to people with disabilities. To effectively say, you're so bad that you might as well be like one of THEM.
I don't actually see any way whatsoever that it is different from using gay as an insult.
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Date: 2011-02-02 07:51 pm (UTC)From:But lame, like spaz, and retard became a slur because it was used to compare healthy people to people with disabilities. To effectively say, you're so bad that you might as well be like one of THEM.
I don't actually see any way whatsoever that it is different from using gay as an insult.