Posted on 03/02/2018 10:54:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Rebel Donut is teaming up with a local organization to wipe out a derogatory word once and for all.
The business, along with Special Olympics New Mexico, has launched a donut campaign to eradicate the R-word. The goal is to promote inclusion and acceptance of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
With each anti-R-word pastry purchase, Rebel Donut will donate 75 cents to Special Olympics New Mexico. The goal is to raise $1,000 during this year's campaign.
Now youve done it:
With a rebel yell
She cried more more more!
He/she is retarded.
Thats retarded.
Which do they want to eliminate.
The noun or the verb - or is it an adverb?
I dont know.
How about f***tard. Thats what I call my dog some times.
I thought that they had long since replaced ‘retard’ with some new more “growthful” word. So it’s perfectly fine to say retard since it no longer means what it meant. You know...or somthing...
Wipe out.
Word holocaust.
LOL!
Have said to my kids several times when they were growing up “Why did you decide to have an IQ of a potato?”
I was asked that growing up. (Many times!) It’s a family tradition.
However,I have no problem calling Bella Pelosi a retard...among other things.
Yes, like “idiot”, “moron”, “simpleton”, et cetera.
When my daughter was little some female acquaintance of my wife's remarked that she was a "special" child, meaning exceptionally charming. My six year old daughter's reaction was to break out in tears, crying, "I'm not retarded."
Racist?
Drill down.
When you want "inclusion" of people who are ordinarily not included in some activity, what are you asking for?
When you want "acceptance" of people who are normally not accepted, or, more commonly, whose behavior is normally not accepted, what are you asking for?
Republican?
I am sorry, but “eradicating” a word just gives it extra power, and if it is an attempt to keep people from speaking of such conditions it is horribly totalitarian.
Why don’t we just eliminate every word in the English language since someone will be offended by something?
One step at a time....how about just banning the letter R then they will just be etards. Ooops wait a minute etads. :)
What is a word compared to the heart that created it?
That tie is retarded.
The new PC term is “short bus with the magical candy windows”
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