'Mentally Retarded' a Banned Phrase

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binary solo said:

Ka-pi96 said:

IFireflyl said:

I have some English friends that still call cigarettes 'faggots'.

I think you mean fags. Faggots are something completely different (they are food).

Actually a faggot is an archaic unit of measure for a bunch of sticks. Perhaps from back when bunches of stick were worth something.

When a word has both a legitimatre non-offensive use and an offensive demeaning use then it is not unreasonable to ban a word when used in a demeaning context, but that does not completely prevent the use in a legitimal non-offensive context.

In many parts of the world they still are. I know what you mean tho. I'm just sayin'...