Why Is R%%%%% Even Allowed To Be Typed?

King Odin·9/8/2015, 11:08:58 PM·4 votes·704 views

R%%%%%: A person born with a mental condition that has to work tremendously harder than the average person to be able to do simple things (such as learn and communicate) that we take for granted. On top of this, a r%%%%% will usually suffer a lot of ridicule from society because people fear what they do not understand. The people who choose to make fun of the mentally r%%%%%ed tend to be complete morons and cannot comprehend that these people have feelings and emotions just like anyone else.

Can we have this stupid common insult banned? I'm tired of being called a r%%%%% every ranked game because I simply didn't gank a feeding top laner. There are actual r%%%%%s in the world and using it as an insult is just plain old despicable especially for something like a game. It's time for it not even to be said any more by simply not allowing it to be sent.

5 Comments

50000000000000009/8/2015, 11:22:13 PM2 votes

Banning is almost never the answer. First, because just because people can still type things like "r etard" or "r3tard" and such, and they're just as hurtful. Secondly, if we successfully ban "retard," people will resort to insulting others based on other conditions.

What we really need is a decent player reform system.

Fëalnort9/9/2015, 9:17:25 AM1 votes

I think that because it is NOT an insult in the beginning , even if it is used as one. It's not because we do a bad use of a word that we should ban it. If you ban this world, they will only begin to use "handicapped" or such.

If you see someone talk like that, just report him and that should be enought.

Unstoppable Monk5/1/2016, 9:44:07 AM1 votes

People don't even use retard for describing that kind of disabled person. That use is fairly archaic.

Even people with down syndrome use retard for describing people who are being idiots.

grandekahuna5/1/2016, 9:12:00 AM

I think it should be reportable for hate speech. I'm tired of riot brown nosing humanity with how they want to end all homophobic, racial or sexist slurs. You call some %%%%%%, you get instantly banned but call someone a retard and no one cares. Ironically enough I can't even type the n word because "riot cares about us so much..."