It's not okay! I've found people using in social media who wouldn't use retard who have taken to this term. It doesn't mean someone stupid. It simply means "fucking retard". It takes us right back to those using retarded to mean stupid.
I guess what really set me off on this subject today was reading it in a comment on a posting in an aspergers support page. This comment wasn't written to the support page, but about another page by one of the support page's...get this...followers! When I commented that the remark was offensive, I was told by another "but it's true". So, ignorance wins yet again! We are back to square one. With rappers using "autistic" now as an insult, instead of trying to get rid of the R word, perhaps we need to get people to stop using disabilities as an insult.
If you have to say someone is being stupid, then say stupid. Why hurt someone other than the stupid person you're insulting?
Sunday, July 28, 2013
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Really?? Must you go there?
So, if 50 Cent's run in with parents of children with autism last year over his insensitive tweet didn't quite grab your attention, Drake & J.Cole have brought it all back again.
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