I don’t think I can vote for her.

Eh, there are some correlations but this doesn’t prove causation. A lot of poor people are poor due to bad decisions and/or lack of forward thinking, such as not purchasing toilet paper in bulk or on sale.

No, the problem is entirely the intent. “Retarded” actually started a nice way of calling a child slow. It was the accepted, polite term for many years. It is the way that it became used as an insult that was the problem. If you keep changing the word, then the new word will always become offensive if used as an…

You make your own choices, but as has been pointed out casual use of these terms is absolutely a problem.

South Park made Timmy and Jimmy peers of the main characters. They are not defined by their disabilities, and are annoyed at those who try talk down to them. Jimmy was the hero of a recent season, in which he stands up for freedom of the press at a time when a cowardly town could have cared less.

I’m very sorry for what your brother had to experience, but you need to remember that words like “retarded” and “cripple” aren’t necessarily instantaneous triggers for everyone who is disabled or for their family and friends. In the context you mentioned though, definitely. If I caught someone mocking my disabled…

There’s plenty of speculation within the UT staff that parents are trying to place their kids in somewhat less competitive schools to game the 7% rule. Not the easiest thing to measure or study, but that definitely sounds like something a certain type of parent would do.

Then the intellectually honest criticism of Brooks’ post would be to point to the litany of justifiable reasons people have for disliking her in addition to the irrational one of misogyny. Those would be (buckle up):

Who says it’s the source? I’m a woman and I dislike her for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with her gender: she was against gay marriage until it was cool, she’s used racist language to drum up support for her husband (who has been accused of rape by more than one woman), she’s lenient on the death penalty.…

So if she’s disliked simply because she’s a woman, then how can you have any honest discussion about the numerous reasons she shouldn’t be President? At the end of the day, you can dismiss all arguments as “Well of course they’d say that, she’s a woman”. It can’t possibly be because of her handling of this email…

I look forward to the nominations. I only wear (deep) v-neck undershirts, because I think visible undershirts are horrible.

I look forward to the nominations. I only wear (deep) v-neck undershirts, because I think visible undershirts are…