I have said retard several times recently and really felt bad about it.
Like using gay as a pejorative or calling people fags when you mean wuss, retard as a word for stupid or dumb just has to go if you dont want to be labeled a bigot.
I am making an intention not to say it again. There are people with children with special needs that really take offence to it and the last thing i want is to unnecessarily piss some parent off, or make a child who is already suffering from some disability or condition to feel bad about himself.
Having been called a Faggot in a spirit of hate by straight guys when dancing with my boyfriend, I know that being called those words by people who arent part of the group really isnt cool.
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Edited by Moonshoe (10/24/16 02:33 PM)
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Thats what he just said. It will reflect badly on you because people will come to the conclusion that you are either hateful or ignorant.
Some people don't care, and that's their right I think, it's their life. Personally I don't get offended by words.
I don't promote hate speech in anyway, but if someone doesn't care about what others think about what they say, that's on them, I have nothing to say about that, who am I to judge.
I know thats not what im talking about. moonshoe never said it wasnt their own conclusions. Thats all i was saying.
He said fuck that but he wasnt disagreeing with moonshoe.
Im not saying everyone has to care and infact i just said that i say retard quite often.
Edited by BANANA.MAN (10/24/16 02:34 PM)
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BANANA.MAN said: I dont want people to think im hateful and dont care about mentally challenged people but i dont think that saying retard is nearly as bad as saying any racial slur, faggot, dyke, slut, cunt, whore, ect.
Its like midget (which i dont say but its a good example)
Retard and midget were just what people used to call them without even meaning offence. When we got rid of hateful words like nigger, faggot, slut and cunt we also just assumed that since mentally challenged people and little people are minorities that we have to make changes for them for some reason. fine lets call them special needs or mentally handicapped. But it shouldnt be seen as super offensive to say retard
Again i dont say faggot or cunt or nigger but not being able to call a non mentally challenged person a retard once in a while is where the PC movement starts to go too far and looses support because nobody takes them seriously and perceves them as trying to censor people and control language rather than just make everyone feel good about themselves.
Yeah i have a bad habit of using words like retard, midget, and faggot
The last few years i have tried making an effort to stop
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