The URL has "retarded" in it! And Google's index still has the original article text, which uses the term in the body. They changed it to "challenged".
"Officers are looking for a mentally retarded man they say walked away from a supervised group home where he was ordered to stay."
"Mentally retarded" isn't so offensive that a TV station in America wouldn't initially use the term in July 2015, only to be corrected by some PC people into changing it.
It's just kind of a very direct term for something that is delicate. There is (or should be) some range of separation between "insensitive" and "offensive".
The line between insensitive and offensive is so blurry, it would be extremely difficult to make any consistent distinction between the two. It would effectively reduce the discussion to definitional pedantry.
http://www.wowktv.com/story/29652314/missing-mentally-retard...
The URL has "retarded" in it! And Google's index still has the original article text, which uses the term in the body. They changed it to "challenged".
"Officers are looking for a mentally retarded man they say walked away from a supervised group home where he was ordered to stay."
"Mentally retarded" isn't so offensive that a TV station in America wouldn't initially use the term in July 2015, only to be corrected by some PC people into changing it.
It's just kind of a very direct term for something that is delicate. There is (or should be) some range of separation between "insensitive" and "offensive".