What I said was referring to the fact that people don't use it as an insult against people, not that people can't find it insulting.
You're telling me that where you're from, if you call someone a "retard", it's not considered insulting?
'Cause I just don't believe that. Even when "retarded" was acceptable and not insulting (and I am old enough to remember that), it was still never acceptable to use the term "retard" or "tard" as a noun. It's much less acceptable now of course, but it was never okay.
Insulting to the person you called it, yeah. What? Are you talking about before the word was talking about the mentally handicapped? Because it wasn't common use before then, no? Or are you talking about before everyone got activism up on everyone using the word? The insult should be inherent to the word, not in if someone declares that they are insulted.Even when "retarded" was acceptable and not insulting