The "R-Word", or more commonly known as retard or retarded. This word and other slurs like it have been raising controversy in the media every since there has been people who are different. This article by CNN interviews a mother of a son with cerebral palsy. She believes that using the word is just down right insulting to her son and other people with mental disorders. She fears that the negative meaning will be association with her son and a whole other issue will arise........bullying.
After reding this article i found that the word itself it's bad its just how it is used and interpreted. It is not very practical to change "mentally retarded" to "intellectually disabilited" in every document, book and mind. It's just not realistic. Besides, the word itself it's even that bad. Techinqually it means slow, or the inability for the brain to function how it should. We all have one of those moments where you just can't think of what to say or what comes out of your mouth sounds like you just woke up, still drunk, with the accent from Star Wars or something. Though I do thing the word is poorly used it's not enough to create a "Word Banning Policy". One of the comments said how if the government does create a word banning policy, leaving only the politically sound words available for human speech then we would be reduced to grunts and groans because when you think about it they are right. People have trouble with everything so if i go around calling people "purple" or something to that degree of simpilicy it would still be a big deal. Creating a law against words will only cause there to be new words, maybe even "worse" than they are right now.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/07/living/end-r-word/index.html?iref=allsearch
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