On: GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

[onewaystreet]

The term was being used in the same context as "dummies" is in the "for dummies" books. Do you consider dummies an offensive term? If not, why not?

[Retra → onewaystreet]

"Dummy" is very pedestrian term. Compare "shit" and "poo." One is more offensive than the other, even if they are used to mean the same thing in the same context.