I can't have this conversation again.
People keep complaining about it, and they're right. There's a million other words you can use to denigrate someone's intelligence or character, and at a certain point it's just hack to use the same one you've been using since middle school.
You're not fighting some noble uphill battle to prove your unbowed unbent unbroken credentials against the wokescolds, you're just making disabled people feel bad. Also half the time comments containing the word just get auto removed by Reddit filters anyway. I know that a lot of the most militant anti saying retard people are deeply annoying liberals, but when you insist on using the word the effect is not owning Kamala Harris voters so much as making actual disabled people feel bad.
It doesn't matter if you self diagnose as autistic or whatever you so you think you're "allowed to say it" It doesn't matter that Nick Mullen says it and most of us consider him pretty funny. IT doesn't matter if people bullied you by calling you that as a kid. It doesn't matter if you think "no I love actual mentally disabled people, I'm just using the word retard to mean 'asshole'" The point is a lot of people keep asking us to stop people saying it, and it really takes no effort on any of your part to accommodate that.
As it is, when there's a comment the entire content of which is "look at this retard" "you are so retarded" "retarded bitch" etc we will remove that and probably ban the commenter because it's reflective of a bad attitude and low effort posting that makes the sub a worse place. If somebody writes a lengthy generally good post but at some point uses the word "retard" off handedly in between other more thoughtful points, that's more difficult and we probably won't remove the entire post for that alone, but it would be a lot cooler if you just used another word so people won't constantly report your otherwise fine post and message us asking to remove the post and puts us in a weird position.
It's really not hard. When you use the word, you're in the same league as Elon Musk and that ilk devoted to destroying the woke mind virus. You're adults, by and large, you don't need to talk like Cartman forever. It's a change that requires like no effort from you and would make a lot of people feel better. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Edit: Fucking hell why is this like the most intense debate ever on this sub? It's just a fucking word that people who already have a very hard life would in general prefer you not to say, it costs you nothing to be considerate toward them. I'm not the mean teacher putting you in detention for being naughty you fucking dorks, I'm just politely asking people to be more considerate of the feelings of people who already have enough shit to deal with. It costs you nothing