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Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.

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The caller said he wished to “send a message” that “BLM is a bunch of retards.”

History suggests, in fact, that Euro-American liberal democracies have played a significant role in retarding democratic progress elsewhere.

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“What are you two retards doing over there?”

Prior Vital Dufour, who was ordained Cardinal of the Catholic church by Pope Clement in 1313, once listed 40 of the virtues of Armagnac including: "It renders man joyous, preserves youth and retards senility."

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