R-E-S-P-E-C-T #Respect

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To use the word “retard” or any of its relatives in anything but a strictly clinical context, or to mean something negative like stupid, crazy, inept, inferior, etc. suggests that the real people to whom the clinical term refers are all of those bad things you mean to say. Stick with invectives that don’t reduce a person’s worth to an IQ test score.

Here are a few suggestions: asinine, buttheaded, dipshit, ludicrous, crappy, inane, FUBAR, nutjob, ass-backward, jerk — all of which is what you are if you can’t bother to remove a word from your vocabulary for the sake of human dignity.

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. – Henry David Thoreau

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. ― William Shakespeare (Hamlet)