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What Is Going On In America Right Now?

A Discouraging Word: “Retard,” Best Boy, and Hipster Censorship

03.13.11 | Comment?


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Check out this piece at Somebody Hit The Lights! about the use of the morally defunct word "retard," featuring crusading letters to a local periodical, and a wonderful, Oscar winning film about living as a mentally challenged man, Bestboy (1980).

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