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Disabilities

posted 15 years ago by blynnpatton
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Please stop with the insensitive questions and statements about intellectual disabilities or any other kind of disability.

"Full and half retard" statements are offensive. I don't care whether or not you are talking about an actor's performance. They are still offensive. Think about how such comments could make someone feel if they actually have a disability or have a loved one who does.

The same goes with questions like, "why are they so stupid?" or "why can't you train them like a house cat?" It's mean to compare a person to an animal. Again, think about how insensitive questions like these affect other people. I actually saw someone ask the two above questions. They are very offensive even if you say that you aren't intending to offend. Why would you ask such questions?

I have a niece who has Down Syndrome. I love her very much. She is a person just like everyone else. She also has many talents and abilities just like everyone else.

[–] mwhite182 14 years ago

"Full and half retard" statements are offensive. I don't care whether or not you are talking about an actor's performance. They are still offensive. Think about how such comments could make someone feel if they actually have a disability or have a loved one who does.

Before you start your ranting you should know the "full retard" statements come from a little movie called Tropic Thunder, that basically make fun of the idea of someone overacting in their role of a mentally challenged individual. But the same can be said about Cuba Gooding Jr.'s awful performance. He over-did the hell out of his role. So he did go "full retard" and you always go home empty handed when you go "full retard".

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

[–] blynnpatton 14 years ago

That doesn't matter. It was very insensitive of the producers of the movie to use or introduce such terms. There are many things in the past and present that Hollywood does. That doesn't make them right.