Real mature man... Make jokes about a serious situation when Carmelo can't even defend himself...

It’s nice to see Anthony care about a lost cause other than the New York Knicks.

“ Take Charge. Take Action.”

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I’m always weary of allies. Why tell this person’s story and not the person who’s actually going through all of this? I don’t want to reward people for telling someone else’s story when they are perfectly capable of telling their own if we give them a platform for it.

I’d probably watch two-thirds of the first episode, then get bored and go back to my Buffy box-sets.

No. It is the name of the school that many of these adults attended at some point- special education/therapy/life skills. It’s a great school but it became synonymous with “retarded” even among the people that went there. Also, I had one client who would just fall apart any time he would hear the song “You Can’t be a…

I’ve found it’s actually super effective to say, “I avoid using the r-word pejoratively because a person shouldn’t, but I’m not gonna shit on you for using it.” The people I like hanging out with get the hint from that and frequently come back to say, “I thought about it, and you’re right, so I started avoiding it,…

The Beacon School was where a lot of the adults from the workshop went- instead of being integrated into other schools they went there. It’s actually a pretty nice school with a lot of programs geared toward everyone’s abilities plus a lot of benefits they do not get in the other schools such as swim therapy, horse…

One of the interesting things I’m seeing in the discussion and the article is people having an issue with the term “retarded” used to describe people who are definitely NOT retarded (cognitively disabled with an IQ below 70). Autism is not the same as mental retardation, neither is cerebral palsy, although both can be…

“Correcting somebody is perfectly fine”

This isn’t really a socially acceptable thing to do lol. Like at all. Any chance you have autism?

I’m sorry, but short of a mechanic saying “the timing was retarded,” there’s no reason for those words in casual conversation, whether you’re talking about someone or not.

“Retarded” used to be the correct terminology, then it got changed because it was considered offensive. But now the alternatives are considered offensive too and new alternatives are being suggested. And if those alternatives catch on, then they will eventually become offensive as well. That’s because at the end of…

I politely correct people for using “retarded” casually. I would also hospitalize someone for mocking my brother to his face. There’s a scale.

I have to agree.

As usual, George Carlin had the right of it. Changing the name of something doesn’t change the way we feel about it.

You know, it’s actually not cool to compare EVERYTHING to racism against Black people or every word to the n-word you so easily used. We are not the stand-in example for every ism, and don’t want to be.

Honestly in a great article, the south park side was probably the worst and most ill informed part.

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.

you’re mad