Glenn Beck's BRUTAL Open Letter to the Word Police

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Huffington Post is very angry right now because the word is making a comeback. Uh what a surprise. Um it, you know, they're saying, "Oh, this is this is an ugly descriptor that you're retarded." Okay. It's making an unfortunate comeback. Yeah. Yeah, it is. It is. You know, you you notice you don't say that about imbecile or but that's why the word came in because there is a cl a progressive clinical term. Okay? Because scientists said if you have severe intellectual disability, if you're severely is what we would have said, um you're an idiot. That's what the medical term was.

[00:00:48]You're an idiot. If you're moderately you're an imbecile. If you have mild intellectual retardation, you're a Okay? So, it was idiot, imbecile, and And everybody started calling people, you're a You're an idiot. You're an imbecile. And the people, oh, no, no, that's a medical ter. That's not what that means. That's so offensive. And nobody was hurt by being called a Okay. Uh, you got over it. Um, and so then and so everybody's like I mean I I grew up in a world where everything was either gay or and it didn't mean gay or Okay. Uh and and everybody was ringing their hand clutching their pro. We can't use that word.

[00:01:34]So they replaced it. They replaced idiot imbecile and with retardation or Okay? Because it was humane and scientific. Then the same thing happened because you didn't change people and you didn't change the meaning, you know, and so you started saying, "Well, these are intellectually disabled people. They're developmentally disabled. They're people of special needs." And you know what? Guess what?

[00:02:00]Guess what? People of special needs is now not welcome in professional settings. It's an insult. Now wait, I thought that was to replace the insult of You can't just replace words. Okay? You just you can't cuz if society doesn't change, then the new word just means what the old word meant. And then you're going to have to constant it's lather, rinse, repeat, lather, rin. You know what it is?

[00:02:32]It's it's retardation. It shows retardation.

[00:02:37]You're slow. You're slow.

[00:02:41]Okay. So, I I couldn't I couldn't take it anymore. And I am so tired of the word police. And when Huffington Post came out and they were like, "Oh, you know what? We're so very upset about the word." I decided, I'm going to write an open letter to the word police.

[00:02:59]Okay?

[00:03:03]And I took some time crafting this because I feel it deeply.

[00:03:10]So here it is.

[00:03:12]Dear language enforcers, professional offense takers, and euphemism evangelists.

[00:03:20]Oh, how I've missed you. But there you are melting down in perfectly choreography uh uh choreographed uh outrage because the word is making a comeback. And not just any comeback, but a glorious unapologetic full speed ahead retardation of your carefully constructed news empire. Oh, the sheer panic on your face. I mean, it is a chef's kiss. Really?

[00:03:48]It's like watching somebody try to put toothpaste back into the tube while the tube itself is But let me be clear. Since clarity seems to be a concept in your circle, words are not violence.

[00:04:05]They are syllables with baggage.

[00:04:09]and has been carrying its suitcase through the English language for decades now, describing everything from developmental delays to your entire approach to public discourse.

[00:04:22]Now, you've spent years trying to retire it. You have replaced it with increasingly alternatives.

[00:04:30]Intellectually disabled, differently aabled, cognitively divergent, a person with lived experience of slower neural pathways. Good heavens, man. Each one of these is more than the last one. It's honestly, it's like you're a thesaurus having a stroke. The retardation of your project is, however, truly impressive. I mean, you didn't just want to retire the word. You wanted to the natural evolution of language itself. You wanted all of us walking on eggshells, in our speech, self censoring like good little hall monitors.

[00:05:10]Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will literally kill me and require a safe space with an emotional support animal in it. How is that?

[00:05:23]extremely clinically textbook Now, here's the funny part. You magnificent you the more you clutched your pearls and screamed abbleist, the more the word gained power. Why? I know you can't figure it out, but you're a little slow.

[00:05:47]Forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter.

[00:05:50]So, now it's back. And not as a cruel slur aimed at the genuinely disabled, who by the way have bigger problems than vocabulary, but as a perfect descriptor for your entire worldview.

[00:06:05]Climate policies that economic growth. It's Higher education that produces graduates who cannot define a woman. Peak retardation.

[00:06:21]cancel culture that treats as worse than actual policy failures.

[00:06:27]That's not just That's meta Retardation so advanced that it loops back around back into performance art.

[00:06:39]So you wanted to police language. You wanted to police language so hard that you social progress. Remember when we could call bad ideas stupid without triggering a UN resolution? Oh, those were the days. Oh, and they are coming back. But now, every mildly edgy observation requires a dissertation on harm and impact. Your your retardation of humor, art, and honest conversation has produced a culture so fragile that it makes Victorian ladies look like standup comedians.

[00:07:17]So keep seething word warriors. Keep writing your think pieces about how is punching down and we'll be over here using it creatively. That DEI training that was Your pronoun obsession is Uh this open letter might even be a little in its enthusiasm, but at least it's honest.

[00:07:44]You should know the lingui linguistic pendulum is swinging back and it's in all of the right ways, slowing down your march toward total semantic control.

[00:07:57]So in conclusion, I leave you with this.

[00:08:02]The word is not going anywhere.

[00:08:06]It's been from retirement.

[00:08:09]It's your word, your progressive word.

[00:08:13]You brought it into the culture, so deal with it or don't. I don't. I mean, honestly, your meltdowns are half the entertainment for me.

[00:08:22]Signed with zero regards and maximum linguistic freedom.

[00:08:27]A recovering compliant speaker who's done being Lenbeck.