A Requiem for Retards

Or why ideologues are late again. And again. And again. And again.

In the decades before the first wave of political correctness arrived in the 1990s, it was not uncommon to hear a special education teacher reply when queried about her occupation, “I work with handicapped and retarded children.” Among our family’s circle of friends was a kind and gentle lady, a recently widowed immigrant from Austria, who dedicated every Saturday afternoon to volunteering to work with (what today are known as) “special needs” children. She described them fondly, and collectively as retarded children, with no shame or outrage among those who heard this word—retarded.

In the decade that followed, political correctness was contrived in the laboratory of infectious social diseases devoted to plaguing the liberal mind and spreading its noxious ideas worldwide. The liberal mind is both a proud host and fervent vector for the proliferation of many civilization-destroying social diseases.

Because the liberal mind reverts to a default state of retardation, it justifies the spread of these terminal diseases as virtuous and righteous behavior, necessary to satisfy a collective good, by force if necessary, that only the liberal is suited to recognizing and furnishing. The retarded liberal mind concludes the results of its actions, without evidence or careful consideration of unintended repercussions.

The liberal always relies on enforcers originating from centers of lower indoctrination, or public schooling, who upon earning the requisite credentials shuffle themselves blindly toward all the institutions of power and control over popular ideas, where liberals only hire other liberals. Therefore, no conclusive evidence exists that sufficient education inoculates one from a future life as a retard. A cursory glance at public polling results, social attitudes, or nanobioweapon vaccine uptake by education levels will confirm as much. The greater the formal education in years, the greater the loss of pattern recognition triggered by skepticism for healthy inquiry. Formal training for the liberal world is simply assimilation that requires dispensing with common sense and curiosity.

Having habituated themselves to the ranks of shock troops within the special division of speech police, liberals soon found among many words of the English vocabulary, the word retard was being used as invective, or in a way that offended their fragile minds. The liberal, now the one with special needs—specifically the need to purge offensive language from the popular consciousness—mobilized teachers’ unions, journalists, and celebrities to begin their language purges. By the turn of the century, millennials accepted the language malware detection programming and began shaming anyone who dared utter the word retard.

Liberals were unaware that the insult already had a social cleansing mechanism to prevent its pejorative use around those who were retarded. It was called the child’s fist. There has been no more satisfactory and efficient equalizer in the history of childhood education.