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'The greatest victory of the last election, for what appears to be a truly startling number of people, is the belief that they can now use the word 'retard' with abandon, and not in the context of music theory."
~Robyn Pennacchia
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-rights-brave-new-world-vibe-shift
"They’re near-ecstatic about it, which is weird because, aside from being a slur and unnecessarily hurtful to people with intellectual disabilities and the families and friends who love them, it has the effect of making anyone who uses it in that sense sound far less intelligent than the person they’re hoping to denigrate."
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"That being said, like Glinda explained to Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz, the power to use that word was inside them all along. It was never illegal. It just had the effect of making people think that whoever said it was an asshole, which it still does."
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"The word has not just magically become acceptable to say, and everyone who would have thought someone was an asshole for using it still thinks they are an asshole for using it. The difference is that those saying it now feel as though they have social power they did not have before the election.
That, really, has been the crux of everything for several years now."
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"They feel as though they have been denied the social power and cultural influence to which they are entitled, and even though literally nothing has changed beyond a president who didn’t even win the popular vote by a whole percentage point running roughshod over the entire federal government, they are frantically declaring a vibe shift."
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