Talk:Derpy/@comment-72.87.56.135-20120304220000/@comment-89234-20120307183158

I was going to say that I could link you to any number of posts (though they're a bit hard to find these days now that discussion about the controversy itself is in full swing) complaining about "derpy" people if you want proof, but I'm afraid I may not be able to help you when it comes to "academically accepted sources" on the use of the slang term "derp".

You talk as if the responsibility for an insult were entirely on the person hearing it. Regardless of what Matt & Trey Parker may have intended, however, it still caught on as a word (as the last Wikia Contributor said) related to stupidity, and from there, a derogatory term for what the writer sees as "stupid". Obviously, the writers of the show had no intention at all to insult anyone, but the use of the word as an insult has a strong enough precedent to yield complaints in the double digits.