I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    According to an unreliable source - some 70s comic by the same guy who made the evangelical Chick tracts - Nimrod was an Oedipus-type figure that married his mother. So I always took Bugs use of “Nimrod” as a sly way to say “motherfucker”.