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In Reply to: retard / prick alert on Melrose Ave, LA posted by danny kaey on February 17, 2007 at 18:26:58:
suffered from Alzheimers, it suddenly became cruel to refer to his "senility." Or his imbecility.
Why? Out of respect for a condition over which he had no control. Out of respect to his family.
If a person has a physical disability, such as having been born with one arm...is it "funny" to use some clever putdown to refer to them or their unfortunate circumstance?
How about a person suffering from schizophrenia? I don't find "crazy" particularly amusing, do you?
If one agrees that making light-- attempting to find humor-- in the physical or emotional disabilities of others is neither amusing nor right, why would anyone find a developmental disability fertile suitable ground for humor?
My six-year old daughter and her friends occasionally find great mirth in calling out "fatty" "dummy" and other pejoratives, though she now understands more and more how hurtful they are.
I see some here have not yet reached that level.
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The situation of being senile, retarded, crippled or insane is such that no matter what euphemism we employ to describe them people will start to get defensive and see the term as pejorative.It's like when saying "colored people" was a nice way to describe Negroes, then "colored people" became a pejorative and now has come full circle and is OK if twisted into "people of color".
Or when they came up with the euphemism "special" for retarded. Next thing you know kids are insulting each other by calling each other "special". Some things are bad things and calling them by different names won't make them good things.
It's all bullshit. You can't keep up with what's "nice". Of course one avoids obviously hateful terms but saying that the senile are in fact senile seems harmless to me. Or less harmless than pretending senility doesn't exist.
In my day job, I work with the disabled. Some are downs syndrome, other are purely physical disabilities, we get all sorts. It's taught me a few things about the nature of such language. The original poster was using 'retard' as a negative term to describe someone who presumably does not have mental retardation. I'm not PC, but when you use a term like that in hate, it's an attack on all those who the term could legitimately describe, as it correlates his negative attributes to all of those who really do have retardation.Some of these people can do impressive things- at my facility, we assemble STD testing kits for Roche Molecular services. And some retarded people are able to work on this job, which requires 100% quality control and reconciliations.
"I'm not PC, but when you use a term like that in hate, it's an attack on all those who the term could legitimately describe, as it correlates his negative attributes to all of those who really do have retardation."Yes, I see your point and agree. Well said, very well said.
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