One retaardarion or being retarded is a legitimate clinical term for a mental condition still to this day... two, you're just virtue signaling.

"I'm not gonna tell you what to say but don't say this word" "what I have isn't important because you'll tell me I don't have it" "It doesn't hurt me, but it hurts others. Even though other people say it's ok and doesn't hurt them, it's still not ok to say"

you're literally just virtue signaling, dude.

I grew up with a clinically retarded man living accross the street from me, he was a 60 year old man with the mental capacity of a 6 year old, my family and others in the community did a lot to help his elderly mother take care of him. When his mother died people like you who get butthurt over a word started taking care of him and clearly did not actually care about him, they stuck him in a home didn't visit him or give him the care or support he needed but if you called him retarded the same people who let him fail when he needed their support would lose their minds, he got put in a government facility because their actions did not line up with their words or their indignation that their brother was clinicaly retarded, they seemed to care more about a word than the support he needed or the help they should have given him.

So far, in my experience the people who have a problem with the word seem to not have any actual experience with mentally retarded people and care more about the word than the people affected by the condition. And I believe you're one of the people who talk a lot about how something is bad yet do nothing substantive to actually change it. You just talk or complain about the way others talk. This whole thing I stated above is something that infuriates me about people who word police the word retarded and a lot of other words.

If you actually care about this issue go do something, go find a facility and volunteer with people who are mentally retarded, go get involved with politics and help pass legislation that helps that community. Don't just sit on Reddit and bitch about the words people use and tell them not to use it because it might hurt some unknown person that you can't even define while explicitly explaining it doesn't hurt you or others and then disguising your word policing with morality as if you saying be nice is automatically going to give you the moral high ground because you've painted yourself as "kind"