People like this see “retarded” as an offensive label.
I’m looking 10-20 years down the road and I think “autistic” will be seen as an offensive label.
There is no winning. Labels are labels. Name-calling is name-calling.
I don’t see any harm in saying “retarded” to describe (label) someone who seems a little slow. But calling them a “spaz” might be insulting (name-calling).
the way to fight them on a personal level is being polite but refusing to bend to their whims. I am truly surprised that FB didn’t pull my comment immediately.
Wait. What? We can’t say ‘spaz’ now?!
Except “spastic” once was a respectable label to describe someone who didn’t have control of his body—like cerebral palsy. Of course kids and some adults used it to describe the athletically challenged.
Colored became negro which became black which became African American. Each of those words means the same. Never mind there are many Caucasians who are African and most blacks in America who never set foot in Africa nor had their ancestors.
Same with midget to dwarf to little person. Frankly, “little person” seems condescending but that’s what they want today. Tomorrow it’ll be something else.
There are some who can’t agree on He and She so insist on ze and they. Enough with these word games. I’m sick of them.
Larry the cable guy goes after people who are disabled.
You should not do so to people who cannot defend themselves.
I have a cousin who has a disabled son and I would deck anyone who made fun of him.
Plenty of other things to make fun of and not target the disabled.