Can you forward me the memo? I want to know when retardation became a creed, belief, or opinion.
The R-word is EXCLUSIVE “What’s wrong with "retard"? I can only tell you what it means to me and people like me when we hear it. It means that the rest of you are excluding us from your group. We are something that is not like you and something that none of you would ever want to be. We are something outside the "in" group. We are someone that is not your kind. I want you to know that it hurts to be left out here, alone.” – Joseph Franklin Stephens, Special Olympics Virginia athlete and Global Messenger
The R-word IGNORES INDIVIDUALITY “Words matter. People don't need to scoff at others to make a point. Everyone has a gift and the world would be better off if we recognized it.” – Tim Shriver, CEO of Special Olympics
The R-word is OFFENSIVE “The word retard is considered hate speech because it offends people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as the people that care for and support them. It alienates and excludes them. It also emphasizes the negative stereotypes surrounding people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; the common belief that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities should be segregated, hidden away from society, which, in my opinion, is really old fashioned.” – Karleigh Jones, Special Olympics New Zealand athlete
The R-word is INCORRECT “When you say the "R" word it makes people feel bad and it hurts my feelings and I don't want to hear you guys say it. Instead, you can call me a leader, a hero, or a human being, but please don't call me the "R" word.” – Dony Knight, Special Olympics Oregon athlete
The R-word is DEROGATORY “Because the word has become a casual description of anything negative or flawed, ‘retarded’ is no longer considered an appropriate way to describe people with intellectual disabilities. And any use of the word, even when used as slang and not intended to be offensive, is hurtful - because it will always be associated with people who have disabilities.” – Sara Mitton, Board Member, Treasure Valley Down Syndrome Association
The R-word fosters LONELINESS “It hurts and scares me when I am the only person with intellectual disabilities on the bus and young people start making “retard” jokes or references. Please put yourself on that bus and fill the bus with people who are different from you. Imagine that they start making jokes using a term that describes you. It hurts and it is scary.” – Joseph Franklin Stephens, Special Olympics Virginia athlete and Global Messenger
The R-word is HATE SPEECH “I don’t think you understand how much you hurt others when you hate. And maybe you don’t realize that you hate. But that’s what it is; your pre-emptive dismissal of them [people with intellectual disabilities], your dehumanization of them, your mockery of them, it’s nothing but another form of hate. It’s more hateful than racism, more hateful than sexism, more hateful than anything.” – Soeren Palumbo, student, advocate, brother to a sister with an intellectual disability.
I wouldn't expect you or Graham to understand.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
When you have a nation full of offa-da-boata-da peasants like J.O. Box, they will line up to do whatever the King calls on them to do. Stab their neighbors' kids in the backs, burn the Constitution, cheat, lie, kill and steal. Whatever the local carbineire call on them to do, or the Provincial King says is their duty, That is why we need to reduce immigration. You are seeing the ill effects of so many non Anglo-Saxons and their devotion to serfdom. Look at Rottendam. It is the perect microcosm of such thinking or lack of it.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
When you have a nation full of offa-da-boata-da peasants like J.O. Box, they will line up to do whatever the King calls on them to do. Stab their neighbors' kids in the backs, burn the Constitution, cheat, lie, kill and steal. Whatever the local carbineire call on them to do, or the Provincial King says is their duty, That is why we need to reduce immigration. You are seeing the ill effects of so many non Anglo-Saxons and their devotion to serfdom. Look at Rottendam. It is the perect microcosm of such thinking or lack of it.
My ancestors were in this country BEFORE it was a country. Graham's bigotry is boundless.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The R-word is EXCLUSIVE “What’s wrong with "retard"? I can only tell you what it means to me and people like me when we hear it. It means that the rest of you are excluding us from your group. We are something that is not like you and something that none of you would ever want to be. We are something outside the "in" group. We are someone that is not your kind. I want you to know that it hurts to be left out here, alone.” – Joseph Franklin Stephens, Special Olympics Virginia athlete and Global Messenger
The R-word IGNORES INDIVIDUALITY “Words matter. People don't need to scoff at others to make a point. Everyone has a gift and the world would be better off if we recognized it.” – Tim Shriver, CEO of Special Olympics
The R-word is OFFENSIVE “The word retard is considered hate speech because it offends people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as the people that care for and support them. It alienates and excludes them. It also emphasizes the negative stereotypes surrounding people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; the common belief that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities should be segregated, hidden away from society, which, in my opinion, is really old fashioned.” – Karleigh Jones, Special Olympics New Zealand athlete
The R-word is INCORRECT “When you say the "R" word it makes people feel bad and it hurts my feelings and I don't want to hear you guys say it. Instead, you can call me a leader, a hero, or a human being, but please don't call me the "R" word.” – Dony Knight, Special Olympics Oregon athlete
The R-word is DEROGATORY “Because the word has become a casual description of anything negative or flawed, ‘retarded’ is no longer considered an appropriate way to describe people with intellectual disabilities. And any use of the word, even when used as slang and not intended to be offensive, is hurtful - because it will always be associated with people who have disabilities.” – Sara Mitton, Board Member, Treasure Valley Down Syndrome Association
The R-word fosters LONELINESS “It hurts and scares me when I am the only person with intellectual disabilities on the bus and young people start making “retard” jokes or references. Please put yourself on that bus and fill the bus with people who are different from you. Imagine that they start making jokes using a term that describes you. It hurts and it is scary.” – Joseph Franklin Stephens, Special Olympics Virginia athlete and Global Messenger
The R-word is HATE SPEECH “I don’t think you understand how much you hurt others when you hate. And maybe you don’t realize that you hate. But that’s what it is; your pre-emptive dismissal of them [people with intellectual disabilities], your dehumanization of them, your mockery of them, it’s nothing but another form of hate. It’s more hateful than racism, more hateful than sexism, more hateful than anything.” – Soeren Palumbo, student, advocate, brother to a sister with an intellectual disability.
I wouldn't expect you or Graham to understand.
Ok, so you clarified, it's not bigoted. It's offensive to the thin skinned.
When you have a nation full of offa-da-boata-da peasants like J.O. Box, they will line up to do whatever the King calls on them to do. Stab their neighbors' kids in the backs, burn the Constitution, cheat, lie, kill and steal. Whatever the local carbineire call on them to do, or the Provincial King says is their duty, That is why we need to reduce immigration. You are seeing the ill effects of so many non Anglo-Saxons and their devotion to serfdom. Look at Rottendam. It is the perect microcosm of such thinking or lack of it.
I am extremely impressed with your ingnorant ranting (LOL)...you are putting that phoney degree to work!!!! You are the KING Classless Clown Wannabe Somebody but is a Nobody! You got a problem with me becuase I'm Italian...bring it on you racist bigot!
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
They NEVER had a spine or balls!! The spineless inhumane government aren't the ones who have a gun in their hand, look in the eyes of another human being, and blow their brains out!!! All the spineless government does is send their young men/women to do it!!! GOV ALMIGHTY doesn't know nor have a clue what it's like to look someone in the eyes and watch a mother hold their dead/wounded baby....a father hold his dead/wounded mom....a kid cry over his dead/wounded grand parents or human beings digging in the garbage for food!! And all for what?.....Politics and government control!!! The young men/women are killing and are being killed to help the rich get richer and keeping GOV ALMIGHTY corrupt!!! How much more innocent blood needs to be shed for this bullsh!t??
Was there a Spine Removal Surgery at the White House?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
My ancestors were in this country BEFORE it was a country.
A classic retarded statement.
You can't be in something before it exists.
You could be in North America before the United States exists, but you can't be in a country before it is a country.
Plus we all know your story of great-great-great grand pappy box of baby killing, pesky Injun murdering history.
You belong to the box of flip floppin family.
First your ancestors came as Europeans and killed the North Americans, then you yourself, fought to kill the Asian threat, now you support killing the middle easterners as part of your duty as an American by virtue of conquering the natives.
You come from a long line of supporters of killing babies for centuries.
Obama is not the father of the world. He doesn't have the right to punish other countries by killing people.
Instead of bitching at each other you guys should be contacting your reps, not sure if it will make a difference but its worth a shot.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Instead of bitching at each other you guys should be contacting your reps, not sure if it will make a difference but its worth a shot.
I already have.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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