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| Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
| The R-Word? Really? |
| Words only matter if you let them. Sometimes people make mistakes, and sometimes people are honestly offensive. The trick is to use judgment when dealing with these situations. When Sarah Palin tried to get the White House Chief of Staff fired for using the phrase "f-cking retarded," she didn't use proper judgment. The term retarded has become part of popular vernacular. Conversely, it has faded out of use in actually describing the developmentally disabled. In the context that Rahm used the phrase he was describing his democratic compatriots. Not only did Sarah Palin not take this into account, she did not take in to account his apology, or her untimely response to the situation. Nor did she consider her own folly in her "retarded baby campaign" in which she exploited her own grandson. That is exponentially worse that than Rahms' words. His words were not used to compare something to being developmentally disabled but to the current popular use into which the word has evolved. The whole occurrences was really not a bid deal. A man said some word, he apologized, he went away. End of story. |
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