So I'm not part of the easily offended brigade.
I'm not actually offended, I'm more just wondering.
Listening to lbc last night and the presenter said, "your going to call me a tard for this" caller then said "yes you are a tard. "
Now I assume tard is short for retard, correct me if I'm wrong.
Is it OK to be using retard as an insult on national radio?
My son has a syndrome that is classified as mental retardation, which doesn't really sit well with me as I feel that retard is a bit of a playground insult like spastic, and shouldn't really be used as a medical term. I prefer intellectually disabled. Now I hear presenters casually using tard as an insult and I feel a bit like, that shouldn't really be an OK word to use in main stream media. Would he have said spastic?
What do others think. Is tard and retard OK to use as a casual insult on mainstream TV and radio?
I wouldn't have actually cared if it was used by a comedian or someone in real life. But this was a news show on the radio.
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