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[–]m_bishop 1053ポイント1054ポイント  (292子コメント)

I have a friend who's worked decades in a group house for retarded people, so we've had this conversation many times.

First, the word 'retard' is the technical term. It means 'to slow'. To call someone 'Mentally Retarded' is to say they are cognitively slowed. This terms was actually used rather than calling them insulting names like 'simple' or 'dumb'.

After an endless list of different terms he'd been asked to use by his different managers, and the different family members, he and his coworkers finally settled on the term 'Tang'.

I asked him why, and he said 'It's the part of the knife that isn't sharp. Maybe no one knows much about knives, but no one bothers us about it'.

The funny thing, he explains, is that the only reason that the word 'Retarded' is an insult, is because it describes those people. No one wants to be retarded. Any new term you come up with will, eventually, be viewed as an insult, because it's describing something that no one would ever want to be. 'Challenged' and 'Special' have all gone through these phases of being the less insulting term, only be accepted as a description of people with mental deficiencies, and ultimately used as an insult toward perfectly normal functioning people, because no one likes to be called 'Special', 'Challenged', or 'Retarded'.

So, really, whatever you call them BECOMES an insult. It makes no difference at all what term you're using at the moment, because associating a word with a group of people that no one wants to be associated with is only creating new insults.

[–]CatatonicMan 459ポイント460ポイント  (73子コメント)

It's called the "euphemism treadmill".

[–]DickJagamo 295ポイント296ポイント  (58子コメント)

TLDR: Political correctness is retarded.

Just let people fucking talk and quit being sensitive, whiny children.

[–]hablomuchoingles 81ポイント82ポイント  (8子コメント)

No, it's tang...tanged? mentally tanged? I'm going back to retarded...

[–]Slim_Shady_SIT_DOWN 15ポイント16ポイント  (16子コメント)

I disagree, I think political correctness is generally a good thing that should not be done away with because of the occasional overreach. I think it's better than the alternative of having no regard for the feelings of others. Here's a bit a comedian did about it.

[–]caboose309 47ポイント48ポイント  (5子コメント)

Well the thing is that political correctness is the overreach, not what should be the norm. The norm is called not being a dick

[–]bigtfatty 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

That was hilarious. Those annotations were brilliant too.

[–]ninereeds314 21ポイント22ポイント  (11子コメント)

I've tried to explain this to people in the past. If you focus on rejecting the words, you're wasting time and effort - changing words doesn't change the attitudes. The treadmill metaphor is right - you keep taking steps but don't actually move. It's the attitudes you need to fight, and to do that you need to actually recognize those attitudes - not just get triggered by words.

[–]QuickStopRandal 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

And I fucking hate it so fucking much.

[–]YgramulTheMany 119ポイント120ポイント  (76子コメント)

It's basically like referring to "colored people." That term used to be the sensitive way not to use more derogatory language. It's still intact right there in the acronym of the NAACP. But it's not the preferred nomenclature anymore, and neither is "retarded."

[–]bozco19 14ポイント15ポイント  (10子コメント)

I prefer just being called black...

[–]u_got_a_better_idea 13ポイント14ポイント  (8子コメント)

My area is predominantly white and Asian, but every black person I know prefers to just be called black. I've only ever witnessed white people get upset about it.

[–]BIack 12ポイント13ポイント  (5子コメント)

Ive always felt African American is a stupid term to call somebody. Its basically making two assumptions about them based on the color of their skin and their location, instead of just saying the color of their skin.

You could be a Jamaican dude on vacation from Canada, who knows?

[–]Gargantuan_Dong 32ポイント33ポイント  (6子コメント)

I will never stop calling my friends retarded.

[–]jakelr 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

I will start calling my friends Tangs.

[–]KluKlayu 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep, definitely calling my friend a tang next time he says something dumb.

[–]Warm_Bagels 53ポイント54ポイント  (48子コメント)

Well I think the term "colored" not being the preferred nomenclature makes sense. Using that term to exclusively refer to minorities implies that white people don't have a color and thus implicitly establishes whiteness as the standard (and as a society we try to stay away from ethnocentric ideas).

[–]phila305 75ポイント76ポイント  (37子コメント)

Then why is it PC to refer to them as "people of color?" Has the same connotations to me.

[–]Mr_Burkes 54ポイント55ポイント  (0子コメント)

Asking this question will devolve into circular logic. That's why PC is BS.

[–]Link-to-the-Pastiche 21ポイント22ポイント  (4子コメント)

"People of color" has got to be the laziest PC term ever created. An umbrella term that is borderline to a term that many people who fall under the term . I mean, flip it around and it's pretty much "colored people." We're right back where we started.

You'd think given the enormity of the English language someone could figure out something better. At least the people who sit around all day thinking about words that don't offend people.

[–]BrokenClockwerk 19ポイント20ポイント  (1子コメント)

[–]crisrand 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

English is an adjective-first language. Noun of adjective is awkward.

[–]Rikplaysbass 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

Can we just call them by their color or nationality if they are from another country? If I'm trying to describe a black guy, I'm going to say the black guy. If he's white, I'll call him white. It's not that big of a deal. Or it shouldn't be. People are always looking for a reason to be offended.

(Totally not directed at you. Just a general statement.)

[–]RepostResearch 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

I've known people to get offended at being called a black guy. Other people get offended at being called colored, and others offended at African American. Give it 20 years, and nobody will be allowed to talk outside of the privacy of their own home, for fear of offending someone.

Hell... I've been YELLED at, for calling a woman a woman, without knowing she identified as a man. Bitch, you've got a vagina. You's a woman.

[–]brent0935 3ポイント4ポイント  (17子コメント)

Bc those that use it are referencing a spectrum of people that aren't white, not just blacks.

[–]grdvrs 35ポイント36ポイント  (16子コメント)

Ok but that still seems to imply that whiteness is the standard.

[–]brent0935 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Well when society is overwhelmingly white, then yes, white technically is the standard. That's why everyone else is called a minority.

[–]awfulmemory 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Or that whiteness is particularly abnormal.

[–]whwwwhw 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

I always thought it made white people sound less exciting.

[–]JD-King 5ポイント6ポイント  (5子コメント)

lol you kind of just compared being black to being retarded.

[–]PaperStreetSoapQuote 16ポイント17ポイント  (3子コメント)

lol you kind of just compared being black to being retarded.

lol and you kind of just went full retard

[–]Gneissisnice 34ポイント35ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's the Euphemism Treadmill.

Many "offensive" words started off as technical terms that replaced other offensive words. Once they see widespread use, they end up being used as perjoratives because, like you said, it's got nothing to do with the actual word, but with the association.

[–]m_bishop 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I think the act of finding a term, then working to keep it from becoming mainstream was an interesting way to handle it.

[–]Mr_Rekshun 18ポイント19ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yeah. I had a brother who was severely mentally retarded (he's passed now)... But that was the language we used (it was the 80s). My brother was retarded.

Then, something happened. Retard became a pejorative. It became a taboo word. The term my family had used to describe my brother's condition was no longer acceptable.

I didn't know what to think about it. I didn't feel comfortable with the other words - challenged just didn't describe the severity of his condition (he was severely retarded and never developed cognitively beyond infancy.)

The result? It became something I simply never talked about. I no longer had a language to properly define it. The language had become co-opted by assholes and stigmatised by well-meaning idiots.

Which is a shame. My brother was dealt a shitty hand. He deserved to be talked about more. Now, I'm older, I give less fucks about what people think, so I've taken the word back. My brother gets to be remembered again.

[–]OrganicEarlGrey 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm very sorry about your brother, have you ever actually been criticized for using the term "retarded" to describe your mentally disabled brother?

That reminds me a bit of the office episode where Michael asks Oscar if there's a less offensive word he can use than "Mexican" (the subtext being that ignorant people will often pejoratively refer to all latin-american people as 'mexican').

[–]masterbagger 19ポイント20ポイント  (2子コメント)

Uh oh. Poon Tang meant retard sex all this time? oops.

[–]Advertise_this 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

In Britain, we had a charity called the spastics society (possibly you did in the states as well? I don't know) that dealt with disabled people. It became popular for kids to call other kids a spastic, or a spaz. So they changed their name to "Scope". Guess what kids are using as an insult now? Both, actually.

Bit of background

[–]gringledoom 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think in the US, "cerebral palsy" was always much more common than "spastic". I hear people use "spastic" here (even at work) and they don't seem to actually know where it comes from, and no one ever seems to know and be offended by it.

[–]Dreadlifts_Bruh 27ポイント28ポイント  (13子コメント)

So everything eventually becomes offensive. Except honky that shit's funny.

[–]HBombthrow 16ポイント17ポイント  (2子コメント)

I had a small keychain knife in high school I nicknamed "Honkey Killer" (I'm not white, very white school). Nobody batted an eye, all in good fun. (Eg, white classmate: "Yo, I can't get this box open, give me Honkey Killer.")

I can only imagine if it was the other way.

[–]m_bishop 16ポイント17ポイント  (8子コメント)

Honky can only be insulting when people genuinely don't want to be white ... and, hey, being white is still a pretty good deal.

[–]masterbagger 17ポイント18ポイント  (4子コメント)

I dunno, I wish I could put something different on college applications and job resumes.

[–]mathiastodd21 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'm half Hispanic but look white. On a lot of applications it says to check "White" or "Hispanic/not white" and it's a conundrum every time.

[–]starhawks 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

And this logic is fucking stupid because it implies the only reason racial slurs are offensive is because people wish they were another race. How about they're all ok, or all not ok? Sound good?

[–]ematico 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

I always saw it as just that, a technical term. Retardation, to slow down. Fire or flame retardant, something that slows or stops a fire. Mentally retarded, mentally slowed down. I just went with the dictionary definition, for that description .

[–]roninjedi 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Well i mean we did acctually call them stupid and dumb. IT was the medical term a long time ago to call them stupid, dumb, and a moron.

[–]m_bishop 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I feel like 'Mentally Retarded' was an attempt to make it a real diagnosis. There is an IQ requirement for the term.

[–]roninjedi 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Their was an IQ reqirement for the other three terms as well. But you are partly right, they did change it so that it would sound more medical.

[–]KungFooGrip 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Its how "shell shock" became "post traumatic stress disorder".

Yes, I'm aware of George Carlin, thank you.

[–]red_duke 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well that is pretty fascinating.

[–]BlackPresident 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I thought it was insulting for some because it's too broad and lumps dissimilar people together showing a lack of better understanding?

The other issue being labels/adjectives.. "he is a retard" or "he is retarded" being used rather than "he has development issues", "he has down syndrome", "he has specific condition that makes him differently abled".

People want a single word that they can use when referring to someone like this so they can continue on their day not giving it a second thought, since it's not something that necessarily needs to affect them.

[–]androx87 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

tang

Something something Evangelion

[–]LeojLarkin 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I like tang but ricasso would be cooler. Also tangs are hidden by the grip and ricassos are not, might be a comment on the situation as a whole.

[–]suddenly_ponies 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

So simple, yet so poignant.

[–]Psychedelic_Roc 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I think the problem is just using a trait that a person can't help having as an insult. I refuse to use retard as an insult, and especially refuse to use gay as an insult, because being gay isn't even a hindrance by itself. (Homophobes make it a hindrance- kind of a vicious cycle)

I don't freak out when others use retard as an insult because that's ridiculous. It's too common and too mild to fight. If a friend uses gay as an insult though, and only a friend, I'll point out that they did it and I don't like it. I am half gay anyway, so I should be able to talk.

[–]Achalemoipas 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Retard doesn't mean to slow, it means late or delayed.

It originally referred to children who were late in their cognitive development.

Also, it replaced the word "idiot".

Idiot was the term used by the guy who invented IQ groups to describe people getting a certain score range.

At the May 18, 1910 annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded, Goddard proposed definitions for a system for classifying individuals with mental retardation based on intelligence quotient (IQ). Goddard used the terms moron for those with an IQ of 51-70, imbecile for those with an IQ of 26-50, and idiot for those with an IQ of 0-25 for categories of increasing impairment. This nomenclature was the standard of the field for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Goddard

It's also because of that guy that retards have limited criminal responsibility.

[–]meltypeeps 2ポイント3ポイント  (23子コメント)

This is all true, but the problem is that many tangs (?) are still smart enough to recognize that it's an insult, and then they feel bad about everyone using an insult to refer to them, and using a word that refers to them as an insult.

So yeah, they make up new terms regularly that are inevitably going to go the same way as retard, but it's not only creating new insults. There's a period of time between when the term is coined and when it becomes widely used as an insult, and for that period you can talk about these people's conditions without hurting them.

The whole situation might be kind of dumb, but just calling it stupid doesn't solve the problem.

[–]jamjamboree 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

But this comic isn't really about calling people with developmental delays "retarded," it's about using the word to describe something in a negative way. Ultimately, it becomes tied to these very negative connotations and it is used to insult people that don't have mental handicaps. It then becomes offensive to use it to describe those with mental handicaps as well.

[–]p3ppino 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Imbecile and idiot were both medical terms

[–]mtagmann 222ポイント223ポイント  (16子コメント)

The clip in question. Much better with sound and a touch more context.

[–]daman9987 85ポイント86ポイント  (15子コメント)

I mean I read it in their voices perfectly.

[–]Backupusername 127ポイント128ポイント  (5子コメント)

You can start pretty much any sentence with "Aw, jeez, Rick" and it comes out in Morty's voice.

"Aw, jeez, Rick, this shit is dope af."

"Aw, jeez, Rick, we're gonna have to amputate."

"Aw, jeez, Rick, I vote Republican; you know that."

[–]Pretty_Obvious_7 83ポイント84ポイント  (2子コメント)

Morty, listen to me Morty. You gotta go buy some eggs and milk Morty.

[–]free_reddit 42ポイント43ポイント  (0子コメント)

Included the hiccups and burps in my head.

[–]Adolph_Stalin 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

You gotta go buy some eggs, and milk Morty.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–]Suckonmyfatvagina 24ポイント25ポイント  (0子コメント)

Holy shit this is so true it's scary.

[–]woizard 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

The last 2 actually sound like lines that would come up in an episode of Rick and Morty

[–]hiromasaki 9ポイント10ポイント  (7子コメント)

I've never seen the show, but the images I always use Christopher Lloyd's voice for Rick.

[–]stjimmyy 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

If you have Hulu, jump on that shit right now. It's really good

[–]daman9987 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ya now think of it as a drunk Christopher Lloyd always burping mid-word and Marty is like way more whinier.

[–]mtagmann 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sure, but not everyone's seen the show, and I think those are the folks who would benefit most, especially considering this was the clip that got me into the show :)

[–]IAmRoob 202ポイント203ポイント  (19子コメント)

WHAT UP MY GLIP GLOPS

[–]Hartge 127ポイント128ポイント  (7子コメント)

It's like the n-word and c-word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for Jews.

[–]Worlds_Best_Coffee 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

That was probably one of my most favorite pieces of dialogue in television history.

[–]racer_24_4evr 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

Bird Person can arrange that.

[–]thechungdynasty 17ポイント18ポイント  (0子コメント)

It has been a challenging mating season for Bird Person.

[–]JamesGoodall 65ポイント66ポイント  (6子コメント)

WHO'S UP FOR BLIPS AND CHIIIITS?!

[–]ahyuknyuk 82ポイント83ポイント  (1子コメント)

HOLY SHIT! THIS GUYS TAKING ROY OF THE GRID! THIS GUY DOESNT HAVE SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ROY!

[–]YNot1989 38ポイント39ポイント  (1子コメント)

You beat cancer and then went BACK to work at the Carpet Store? Booo!

[–]Waverlyguy 66ポイント67ポイント  (1子コメント)

Bird Person enjoys this post.

[–]LazyCon 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You a fan of the old 280 Boogie?

[–]bolt_snap_bolt 283ポイント284ポイント  (19子コメント)

Fucking love Rick and Morty

[–]be4u4get 44ポイント45ポイント  (4子コメント)

Yo that show is retarded (in a good way)

[–]Dualmilion 18ポイント19ポイント  (9子コメント)

Wait is this an adult cartoon? Because I just assumed is was like adventure time, for kids but adults can enjoy it too

[–]thepenguinhumper 67ポイント68ポイント  (5子コメント)

If you showed it to your kids you'd either be an awful parent or an awesome one. It's about as adult as archer.

[–]Dualmilion 26ポイント27ポイント  (2子コメント)

Oh shit, well I'm going to go watch it then

[–]Jkc0722 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hurry! Season 2 episode 2 airs this Sunday! I think all the episodes are up on adult swims website

[–]Sonszpyt 20ポイント21ポイント  (0子コメント)

Adult cartoon. I thought the same for months. While I'm not a fan of adventure time, I thought to give this a shot on Monday this week. By Tuesday evening I had watched every episode. Its great, I'll leave it at that.

[–]saltingthatsnail 24ポイント25ポイント  (5子コメント)

Fun fact! Mental retardation no longer exists as a diagnosis in the DSM-5! It's now labeled as "Intellectual Disability" which can range from mild to severe.

[–]Freedom_from_Idiocra 28ポイント29ポイント  (2子コメント)

Well that's retarded

[–]lunacraz 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

No, it's an intellectual disability... what are you, retarded?

[–]Merari01 12ポイント13ポイント  (3子コメント)

I want season two of this show so bad.

[–]arg6531[S] 18ポイント19ポイント  (2子コメント)

you're in luck. S2 started last sunday and the first few episodes are leaked online.

[–]Merari01 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

That's awesome! They aren't aired where I live so I'll wait for them to be available online. :)

Edit: Episode one is already on the Adult Swim website. Squee.

[–]SirRollsaSpliff 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Watch it on Couchtuner.com my, Glip Glop

[–]Nothing_Impresses_Me 32ポイント33ポイント  (17子コメント)

Is he supposed to resemble Doc Brown from Back to the Future on purpose?

Rick and Morty?

Doc and Marty?

Disclaimer: I've never watched the show, only seen screen caps on reddit.

[–]Freddie_Fish 48ポイント49ポイント  (3子コメント)

The show is actually based off a parody of Back to the Future that Justin Roiland (one of the creators of the show) made a while back. The show is basically a giant play on sci-fi tropes, I highly recommend it.

[–]arg6531[S] 23ポイント24ポイント  (9子コメント)

Yes, it all started with Doc and Mharti(NSFW) and eventually became Rick and Morty. Here's some more info, and I'd recommend you watch the show, it's all online.

[–]Nothing_Impresses_Me 14ポイント15ポイント  (3子コメント)

awesome. thanks!

EDIT:... not awesome.. wtf. I feel angry and confused.

[–]idkmybffyossarian 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Give Rick and Morty a shot. It benefits a lot from Dan Harmon (the guy who made Community.)

[–]nonresponsive 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yea the real show is nothing like that, so don't be discourage. I seriously recommend watching the first episode and seeing if you like it, because it's just all gold from there.

[–]WaruiKoohii 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

What did I just watch

[–]SketchyLogic 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes.

In the original "pilot" (which is... quite something), the characters are explicitly named Doc and Mharti.

[–]veedizzle 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

I need to start watching this show don't I?

[–]suddenly_ponies 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I had the same problem. I'd seen one episode and it was pretty severe, but I went back and watched it all from the beginning and it's really very intellectually interesting. If you like that kind of thing, you'll probably enjoy it.

[–]stormyeleven 30ポイント31ポイント  (1子コメント)

love this show! heres the clip that got me into it.

[–]skandr75 30ポイント31ポイント  (4子コメント)

My son was born with Mosaic Down Syndrome, so my wife and I signed up with some support groups, and the amount of effort being put to "ban" the word was very off-putting.

I once got a call about a boycott being staged against the movie "Tropic Thunder", because a "differently abled" individual was being portrayed by a "typical" person (note ALL THOSE LABELS), and it was offensive to people "Mentally Delayed" (WTF). I then asked her if she knew if the movie in question was a COMEDY, and if anything should be really offensive, was the fact that there was a white actor playing a black character! She threatened to call Social Services to check on the welfare of my child (W T F).

It's just a word, "banning" words because is offensive to a group of people is the true offense, even more so when it's a VALID word.

Use whatever word you wish to use. Those who use them to truly hurt people who are mentally retarded are beneath the ones they mock.

Edit: "Everybody knows you never go full retard." was the offensive line, which ironically was my favorite line in that movie after "what do YOU mean, "you" people". But I wouldn't know, because Reddit as put doubts in my head about the meaning of "irony"

[–]QueuedeSpool 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

But... that was the joke...

It wouldn't have made any sense if they had a mentally retarded person play the Ben Stiller character playing an offensively mentally retarded person. It also wouldn't have made any sense to have a black person play the Robert Downey Jr. character having an identity crisis about black stereotypes.

[–]Farfener 17ポイント18ポイント  (2子コメント)

I love shows like Rick and Morty, funny and silly, but incredibly smart at the same time.

[–]YXAYXA 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

It and Futurama are great about that. They're both hilarious but they also manage to be pretty smart about it too

[–]OriginalPostSearcher 28ポイント29ポイント  (0子コメント)

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[–]kerred 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

R&M is filling that Futurama void so far

[–]Reshkah 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a long time fan of Futurama I'm kinda glad they stopped. The latest seasons just haven't been that great.

[–]arianna5575 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Who else read it in their voices?

[–]bouncingsouls 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Somewhat interesting and relevant: Dan Harmon (one of the show's creators) has a differently abled sister.

[–]Chimp-Spirit 11ポイント12ポイント  (1子コメント)

THE EUPHEMISM TREADMILL ROLLS ON

It does not care for your logic.

[–]Hrodrik 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Logic?? The use of that word insults my feeeelings. What about people who can't use logic?

[–]Scarim 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well I guess this is pretty relevant with the recent Github debacle.

[–]piemywhy 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Joke in the title? Well thats retarded.

[–]zappy487 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hi! I'm Mister Meeseeks! Look at me!

[–]PintoTheBurninator 10ポイント11ポイント  (13子コメント)

how would the microscope have made him retarded?

[–]arg6531[S] 77ポイント78ポイント  (10子コメント)

It was a cursed microscope given to him by the devil.

[–]MachReverb 9ポイント10ポイント  (6子コメント)

But it comes with a free Frogurt!

[–]reveille293 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

And a joke. Suspension of disbelief.

[–]GaryCannon 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

The whole episode was a parody of the book Needful Things

[–]bcgoss 17ポイント18ポイント  (0子コメント)

The promise was that every time he looked through it, he would see something that amazed him. In reality it would have made him so dumb that he would be amazed by anything he saw.

[–]Twitch92 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

Where can I watch this show without having cable?

[–]FlyHump 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I used to know this mentally handicaped kid in grade school who would go along with other kids calling him retarted by saying, "Hello, I'm Joshua and I'm retarded." Kids stopped making fun of him shortly after they all got their laughs in. He was a cool kid, that Joshua. After that he Made kids laugh WITH him. I think that's the only positive thing I got out of school. And now my girlfriend's kid says something similar when other kids make fun of him. It really pisses off those punk kids when he agrees with everything they say about him :)

[–]WorthGodwin 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I really wish people still understood the concept behind "sticks and stones." Words have no inherent power, only that which you give them, and the intent behind the words is incredibly relevant. These days, people have been conditioned to think the words themselves have power and that's the end of it.

And that's... well, what Rick said.

[–]uhohimdead 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I remember my high school running a campaign for banning the word "retarded", a friend got sent just for using it in a joke. Now that's retarded.

[–]TheOfficeJocky 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

This show is hilarious

[–]aRealNowhereMan_ 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ah, the old euphemism treadmill. Did you know that the word "retarded" was suggested as a kinder alternative to the technical parlance of "idiot," and "moron"? Yet here we sit, being told that we need a kinder alternative to the term "retarded."

It seems to me that having unusually low intelligence is such an innately negative trait, that any and all words used to describe it will eventually develop negative connotations. It is, as far as I can tell, inescapable. So the next question that comes to my mind is "How many times must we play this damn game?"

[–]HippieDreamer 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Currently watching Season One, just finished this episode last night! Looking forward to more!

[–]cole93747 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Literally all I can think now is "LICK MY BALLS"

[–]woizard 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I forgot that rick and morty has really damn good social commentary

[–]timmyboy188 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Symbology? Now that Duffy has relinquished his "King Bonehead" crown, I see we have an heir to the throne! I'm sure the word you were looking for was "symbolism." What is the ssss-himbolism there?

[–]spaceminded81 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Take that you politically correct nerds! Apply this to all issues PC related on reddit. A joke is a joke, whether it's race, gender, sexual identity etc. Words can have several meanings depending on the context. If you don't realize this, well then... you're a retard

[–]Shtink-Eye 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah but, you don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.

[–]Cicer 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

In this context, there's no disrespect, so, when I bust my rhyme, you break your necks.

So let's get "it started" in here

[–]Belaires 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can't wait to see them tackle the nagger issue