Posted on 06/18/2013 12:41:52 PM PDT by Morgana
Right there with you ScottinVA!!
Todd Palin would be one of my top choices for not getting pounded by.
Obozo, through an executive order, removed the use of the term “retarded” and replaced it with “Intellectual Disability”. This is what we are using in assessing student’s IQ for anyone with an IQ score of 70 or below, combined with adaptive skill deficits.
Along with that free speech should be Todd’s right to beat Maher’s ass if he is offended. You cannot yell fire in a theater you should not be able to deride someone without consequence from that person (or parent).
I want Maher or someone to make a racial, derogatory, or sexual joke about the CiC kids and see what happens.
back in barbara’s day if you were a woman you slept your way up the corporate ladder - like she did. today that’s just being the empowered office slut.
Fidel is her one true love.
I’ve seen a lot of discussion of this issue, but very few specifics.
I think it’s pretty clear that the word was used and intended to be used, to be hurtful. HOW hurtful it was depends entirely on the context.
So why don’t we get to see the context?
Put it on pay per view and all proceeds go to Sarah’s campaign. She’d out raise moron boy 2 to 1. Ooops moron might be a bad word.
I still use the word retarded and I am not PC and don’t care. However, Mahler was using this to attack and insult a small child to get at a politician (Sarah Palin). Mahler is a turdburger shit-for-brains, used condom F***wad to be polite.
Babaweewee is retarded. I don’t know the words mentally challenged, as they relate to Babaweewee.
Sarah could beat me like a rented mule and I would die happy.
Another word trap. If a liberal says something ignorant, it’s OK. If a normal person says the same thing, the person is branded racist/sexist/homophobe/headchopperphobe/
In elementary school, in days before now, the good readers might be the “Red Birds” and the poor readers were the “Blue Birds”, but the students knew Blue Birds meant they couldn't read worth diddly. Then, maybe the names were changed and good readers were “Blue Birds” and poor readers were “Red Birds” - but it didn't matter, all the students knew which group could read “good” and which couldn't.
In testing, “Manic Depressive” was the term/diagnosis we used. Now, it's “Bipolar” and it seems everyone wants to be one of those - “I'm Bipolar - isn't that great!”, which is still “Manic Depressive” by another name. There are few people who actually are Manic Depressive or Bipolar. Shesh.
GOLDBERG: You know, I think that we, society took the word “retarded” and made it into something derogatory. I think we made it a bad word by utilizing, well because we turned it into, you know, something that you call somebody to make them feel bad, to feel different. And I think we, you know, and as we have changed it into developmentally-challenged, you know, we, society has that…
Whoopi you mean like the word Negro? Because like quite literally, that is what you are. Yet, the Negroes found that to be offensive, so it has morphed over the years, out of respect to........anything but Negro. Let Bill Maher call you a Negro and see how that plays. What a bunch of hypocrites.
i like the word, “retarded”... it is a good word when used correctly... i loathe that society takes perfectly good words and makes them taboo... words that i allow my kids to use as long as they use them meaningfully are: retarded, idiot, stupid, queer, ass, damn, and every now and then they get away with using the word, “shit,” depending on the context...
I agree! We as a society need to stop banning perfectly good words simply because some find them offensive...
Pay for view, monies go to a pro-life charity, I am in...
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