There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.
There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.
I find that significantly more offensive than people saying “retarded”.
I think most of us do. The state of mental healthcare across the US is in shambles a fucking joke. Trauma based therapy is a fucking joke. We have a generation of brain broken tablet kids that all believe they’re on the spectrum because their parents so desperately want to be victims that they doctor shop for a diagnosis while they themselves self diagnose “AuDHD” because they like to stack things and play with a fidget spinner, but let’s draw the line at calling anyone a retard.
At least America will have the factory and farm workers we need when the tablet kid generation hits working age and is functionally illiterate and have zero basic life skills. 🤷