A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Jack

What are you, retarded?

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer • 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker uses an ableist slur to question someone’s intelligence. The question functions as an insult; it does not establish a disability or provide a diagnosis.

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