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Straight White Male | Based Reply Guy | Restore 🇬🇧 Heavily criticising a religion does not make you a bigot.
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The Muslim Brotherhood should be proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. Why? Because it is a political-religious insurgency that uses democratic freedoms to ultimately destroy democracy. Its strategy of gradualism — infiltrating institutions, building parallel
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Every Western democratic nation must proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood, as a matter of urgency. https://t.co/KNXhhXZqyz
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The Muslim Brotherhood should be proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. Why? Because it is a political-religious insurgency that uses democratic freedoms to ultimately destroy democracy. Its strategy of gradualism — infiltrating institutions, building parallel
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Conclusion: “Retard” is an old English word with legitimate roots and applications. Its clinical past does not make every use hateful, and its verb form is still valuable today. Reject the notion that it is uniquely offensive. Encourage its proper, non-insulting uses -
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True kindness involves facing reality, not playing endless word games. The euphemism treadmill shows that no new term will stay “safe” forever. Better to defend clear, established language than chase ever-shifting euphemisms.
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Why Rejecting the Taboo Matters: Precision: Clunky alternatives like “intellectually disabled” or “neurodivergent” often obscure more than they illuminate. Honesty: Language taboos train people to self-censor around uncomfortable truths, such as variation in cognitive
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Why We Should Encourage Use of “Retard” and “Retarded”: The verb remains extremely useful and precise: “This bureaucracy is retarding the progress of the project.” “Poor maintenance will retard the engine’s performance.” “Excessive regulation can retard economic
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The Campaign Against the “R-Word”: In recent decades, campaigns pushed to remove “mental retardation” from official use. In the UK, “learning disability” became the preferred term; similar shifts occurred elsewhere. Official updates are one thing. But this evolved into
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“Retard” as a Slur: Yes, “retard” and “retarded” came to be used mockingly (“that’s so retarded”). This happened to every previous clinical term too. The offence stems from the underlying idea - that something or someone is acting unintelligently - not from the specific
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The Euphemism Treadmill: Words for intellectual disability keep changing because people inevitably use them as insults. “Idiot” → “moron” → “imbecile” → “retarded” → “learning disability” → “intellectually disabled” → and onwards. The problem is not the word itself. It
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Clinical and Scientific Usage: By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, psychology and medicine adopted “mental retardation” as a descriptive term for significantly sub-average intellectual functioning (with onset in childhood). It replaced earlier clinical categories such as
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Etymology: “Retard” comes from Latin retardare - “to slow down, delay, or hinder.” It entered English in the late 15th century with a perfectly neutral meaning: To make slower or to hold back. For centuries it was uncontroversial: “retard the progress,” “retard the flame,”
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The word “retard” has become one of the most policed terms in modern English. Many treat uttering it as a grave moral failing. But let’s examine its actual history, meaning, why the taboo is counterproductive - and why we should actively reclaim its useful forms.
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These are the messages being told during Friday prayers at masjids throughout the country. They do not try and hide their hatred either, they do it openly. https://t.co/Cx3aUQ4o4d
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It is not racist to be strongly against this. I repeat. It is not racist to be strongly against this. https://t.co/nneRTCDohf
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Worse: Whistleblowers say Starmer oversaw/drafted "warning notices" (aka "paedophile ASBOs") for suspected child sex offenders. Instead of charges, just a letter. Cases "go away." Same soft-touch CPS that let grooming gangs slip through earlier. Blood on hands.
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Starmer introduced "merits-based" approach & some reforms, but critics say it led to caution and fewer risky cases charged. Result? Victims got no justice, predators walked. He lectures now about "shocking" stats he helped perpetuate. Hypocrisy level: maximum.
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