"Retard" - politically acceptable?
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Every new word for retardation develops into an insult. Idiot and cretin were first used as a medical term but became an insult, so they used retard but that became an insult too. They don't even use mentally disabled anymore. They use 'people with differing intellectual capabilities', 'mentally challenged', 'differently abled' etc.

