On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:18 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote: > The term tard as commonly referred to does NOT specify : > "those in the unfortunate position of have intellectual delays as > retards" > > The term tard is used to describe someone with full faculties > that chooses not to use any of them for any useful purpose. > > I hope this alleviates any anxiety or hostility the term invokes > in those that aren't familiar with it. It is not just a shortening > of the defamatory word used to classify someone who may appear to > be intellectually challenged in one form or another. I personally > would also take offence to someone using the term retard to describe > a person with apparent limitations, whether real or misconstrued. > > I do believe in using the term tard to classify people who have > chosen to disregard there wonderful abilities for the purpose of > causing themselves or others grief for their enjoyment. Sorry, this doesn't fly with me. Using a term (even a shortened one) that describes a set of people to degrade another set is not very cool at all. Not to the people you are degrading, but to the people that the term describes. It's just bad form and makes you look really really ignorant. Credibility goes down the pooper and the majority of listers just flat out ignore you (as I should be doing). It's no wonder the 'tards' ignore your posts. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating