Posted on 02/06/2010 12:28:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“What’s Wrong with using the word — ‘Retarded’?”
Nothing. I am so sick of PC from both political sides.
We do have free speech from our constitution.
Those who don’t like it, move to Venezuela
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Retard is a perfectly good word which means many things. That is probably the problem who do not understand the word “retard”….because they are retards themselves.
How is that?
My best regards.
Agreed. The Republican Party should not become the whining party. Laugh at the hypocrisy, and move one.
that’s move on...not move one.
So...it wouldn't be offensive if I made insulting comments about the "cognitively challenged" or the "IQ impaired" or the "Down's syndrome award finalists"? Works for me.
Haha! The first time I saw a video of a pilot flying one of those, I laughed out loud!
I find it offensive to call people with developmental disabilities, “retarded.” It used to be the clinical term, and it is supposedly not anymore, however, I have seen clinicians use it to describe my son and his cognitive abilities.
However, I use it all the time. I am a child of the 80s, and while I would never ever dream of calling a child or adult with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, or Autism, “retarded,” I use it to describe idiots or situations as really stupid. It means slow (I took French). Much as the African-American community took back the N word or the Gay community took back the Q word, I will take back the R word. However, if I ever catch anyone calling my child or another in his situation that word, they will regret it. I love Sarah Palin, but honestly, I have been in this game (parenting a Special Needs child) a lot longer than her, so I would never apologize to her. I think I remember hearing Axelrod had a kid with Special Needs. Don’t know if it’s true.
Bilnd is now seeing impaired, deaf is hearing impaired , retarded is now "special needs " or learning disabled, Fat is now ample
It is like black people objecting to negro ( spanish for black)
The language is now officially useless
The word itself is not offensive when used in its proper context.
What is offensive is Rahm's usage of the word. Somehow we got sucked into focusing on the word itself when the focus should be on Rahm Emanuel's use of it as a perjorative.
I don't think even a rectum like Rahm Emanuel would call an actual retarded person retarded. That's just plain mean. Rahm used it as a metaphor for stupidity.
And, of course, the newsholes played right along. But we don't have to.
That’s the way I understand what Mr. Emanuel said. The word retarded is just a word, but “retard” is not a word, it’s an insult. Nothing more, nothing less.
Only a retarded gardener would not.
I call them queers. If what they do to each other isn't queer, then nothing is. In polite company I will say homosexual but never "gay".
I disagree with the article except the last sentence.
I explained it to me son the other day, after I heard one of his buddies from using “retarded” as a synonym for “bad.” Replace that R word with “Asian” while you’re playing games with your buddies, some of whom are Asian. “No! Let’s not play that game. It’s so ASIAN.”
He saw immediately how offensive that would be. Same with “Black.” Or “Jewish,” his own minority. Now, if you wouldn’t say that while in the presence of the minority, don’t say it when they are not around, either. And I reminded him that a parent of a special ed kid could hear someone say it and be hurt.
There are still plenty of epithets for guys to call their friends, and say about their enemies, without resorting to their appearance or birth condition or nationality. Exceptions made for adults who love to good-naturedly tease each other mutually.
Sorry. It is not PC that language evolves.
When I was young, there was an extremely CRUDE insult “You suck c*ck.” It was later shortened to “You SUCK.” The verb “to suck” now is used by grandmothers and four-year-olds to mean something is bad.
Grandma does not mean that the movie engaged in oral sex.
Yes. There probably will come a day when none of us will be able to say anything for fear of insulting someone somewhere. Then humans can leave the vocalizing to other creatures. We'll let computers do our talking for us.
*rolls eyes* at the absurdity of all this PC crap
“He who controls the language, controls the people”
Brack Obummer is a retarded marxist.
I hate PC and could care less. But it’s simply a matter of hypocrisy. The left jumps all over any moral failing of a conservative when they damn well wouldn’t care if it was one of their own doing whatever.
AFAIK: He didn’t say “retarded”; he said “effing retards.”
ARAIK: “Retarded” WAS the euphemistic term, originally. “Retard” was ALWAYS a disparaging term, never used by doctors, for instance.
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