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Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by BHSPitMonkey on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:16PM (#42629810)
I think you've misunderstood, then. The GP's comment was using it in the technical sense (slowed/delayed, not the common "that's so dumb" form you've observed).
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Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by zahlman on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:11PM (#42630487)
Ah. The comment was:

>Right. I made a reference to educational development being retarded due to COVID restrictions and the very people you'd expect to be offended were of course offended.

I misread that, and interpreted "retarded" as being a subjective judgment applied to the restrictions.

That said, the reading "[the process of] educational development has a mental disability" is utterly incoherent, so I still see no reasonable justification for taking offense.

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