Sorry guys, this one's locked now. Y'all need to grow the fuck up.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2025
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Joe Rogan identifies as a South Park character: offensive and two-dimensional
You see, the problem with that word is that people who want to keep it around really make me wanna use it.
Can all newspapers, when writing about Rogan, now use the term "Noted r-word, Joe Rogan..."
Can we just make Rogan the new R-word and stop saying it?
Oh, i love this
Shut up, you Rogan
I'm not american and don't care about politics but I was watching a show the other day and when Rogan appeared as a guest I had to shut off after 5 minutes. This person is so annoying I couldn't stand. Don't know how you guys do it. I didn't even liked him in newsradio and I loved the show.
Once he had Alex Jones on his show peddling "clean coal" I stopped listening to him.
That's crazy. Anyway, have you tried DMT?
They can describe themselves again. I suppose that could be considered cultural restoration?
How this fucking australopithecus became a thought leader, I will never understand.
He's a morons idea of a clever person. That's how
Ironically, retard was originally a kinder word cooked up to describe people with lower intelligence, along with moron, idiot, cretin, and imbecile. Over time these became pejoratives. Just kind of interesting to see how language develops and terms intended to avoid offense over time turn into ones that offend people.
Yes, when you come up with a word to describe people that others consider less/worse than themselves, they will invariably end up using the word to describe them as an insult to others. This will happen no matter how mundane or non offensive you try to make the word.
This is the very nature of slurs, and more largely language in general, in the first place. It's not the signifier, it's the signified.
Retarded people are literally retarded. Hope this helps.
Amazing how referring to people by their perceived flaws can be offensive. Woke culture strikes again.
Edit: In case it wasn't obvious, this was sarcasm. No shit being defined by (what others consider) a flaw is gonna be offensive. I thought my original comment was obvious.
If a word is used with the intent to insult people, no shit that that word starts getting perceived as an insult.
It's the euphemism treadmill
Amazing how referring to people by their perceived flaws can be offensive
I mean, isn't this common sense? If you work for me and bring me some sub-par work, I can call you a fucking retard, and you'll probably be offended. On the other hand, if I pull you aside and say that usually you do excellent work, but I'm not liking this, and here's a couple ideas to improve your work, you might look upon that more fondly.
In both scenarios, I'm communicating that I'm not happy with you and/or your work, but one is likely to lead to an HR incident and one isn't. How is this "woke"? (I fucking hate that term, because it tends to be use as shorthand for "stuff I don't like", but no two people seem to share definition beyond that)
Yes, that was my point. I guess the sarcasm was lost
Retarded is what you call your friends when they're being retarded
Michael Scott
Of course retards like Rogan and Trump like that word.
How could this word even be removed. Unlike the N word it actually has legitimate uses. I didn't even know it was "bad" to say.
By not calling people that?
Yes agreed, I advanced or retard timing on an injector pump.
Wilfully ignorant.
I mean, i never really stopped calling people like Rogan and Trump retarded... But calling it a great cultural victory, is just... Retarded.
Rogan really being a gay retard here
Joe Rogan has really sold out to his mentally absent base. What a victory for them.
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