I think it’s common to wish that something would happen to people like that just to force a bit of empathy into them. It’s not so much wishing disabilities on to people, more wishing something that would change their perspective.

I am having a hard time believing that the phrase, “he was doing a standard retard” got published in a real non-fiction book by a real person edited by an actual editor un-ironically in 2016, and yet...here we are.