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Old 06-09-2008, 11:22 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman View Post
Absolutely! It was a slam against Mongolians! Referring to Down's kids as "idiots" is a slam to them. The term is bad in both ways.

You know I am not so sensitive about my girl. I would come out fightin' if anyone ever hurt her feelings, but me, for me...I am not all hot and bothered by people's terminology too much. I figure it this way Pen. If it's tacky, it reflects on the speaker or writer not the subject. But yes, there has been a long held superior attitude that manifests against the developmentally disabled. That is how my sweet darlin' even was sexually assaulted. Her perp figuring her voice would be silenced or not even understood.

The very strange thing is how you said that about the word IDIOT. Cos at one time that was an acceptable word for the cognitively challenged. Even still there is the acceptable term idiot-savant when one shows exceptional gifting in one area in spite of their deficit.

And yet now people that are homosexual like the word gay even though it is becoming fast a word that means the same as idiot, and yet they foam at the mouth in anger at the term homo even though it is only a derivative of the word for what they claim to be, in clinical terms: HOMOsexual.

Funny how all us people are, don't ya think?

OD