Please stop using "Retarded"

[Michael Davis]

[Clarkmeister]

Man, ericd must really hate Howard Stern.........

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho.../23775336.html

"It's the usual Stern shenanigans," says Dallas Orchard, public relations and marketing executive at the Hard Rock, of the bits Stern has lined up for his show there.

Stern, along with co-host Robin Quivers, Artie Lang, Fred Norris and Gary Dell'Abate, will preside over the "Miss Buttaface 2004" contest; "Hollyweird Squares," featuring Gary the Retard, Daniel Carver and John the Stutterer, among others; "Artie Baseball," in which Lang will attempt to get a hit off a female pitcher (it's all for charity); and "Freaky Bowling" with strippers and Wendy the Retard and Gary the Retard, to take place in Stern's penthouse suite.

But that's not all. There's a game of "Bango" in which the winner gets a date with porn star Taylor Rain; Wendy the Retard versus Gary the Retard in a game of "Retarded Card Sharks"; "Blackjack for a New Rack," a game of 21 in which a winner gets a breast augmentation; and a karaoke championship. "

[Clarkmeister]

"Some actual bigotry "

Agreed. You know what's funny, there's been 3 people in my life who I've seen use crack, and 2 were middle class white guys.

[Bump-En-Stein II]

Hi everyone,

This thread is bizarre.


Best wishes,
Bump-En-Stein II

[STLantny]

IF we are going to be a politically correct board, which is what they guy wants us to be, then the word RETARD is not a bad thing. After all the PC term is mentally handicapped. So, retard or retarded just means "slow" or slowed down", which is what many people who play poker are. BTW my mom yells at me a lot for saying "retard". So moral of the story: MOM, quit posting on twoplustwo please.

[Dominic]

re·tard·ed
Pronunciation: ri-'tärd-&d
Function: adjective
: slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development : characterized by mental retardation


Nothing wrong with using this word to describe less than optimal poker play, or a thought process that is illogical and stupid.

It's apt, descriptive and colorful.

[dakine]

Big Fat Slob, or Big Obese Slob? Which one is politically correct? Use of words like "Retard", "Moron", "Idiot" , I can go on and on. Some of those words are used in figures of speech to get a point across. I'm not a retard (though I've been called one many times) so I have no experiance being "Mentaly Handicapped". As a matter of fact, I am a "Big Obese" Heavy Boned Man. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[regisd]

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Very gay spelling

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i'm not sure about the spelling, but the typefont is very heterosexual. or maybe it's just very straight-acting, repressing its nature.

[illini99]

I believe the PC term is "persons with mental retardation." At least that was the preferred term 3 years ago when I took a class on mental retardation (also called "Retardation: A Celebration"). "Mentally handicapped" may have been the term before this term. Idiot was the preferred term 150 years ago.
There have been numerous other terms to describe mental retardation in the interim. I believe all of them were rendered obsolete because they became offensive. So... just wait a decade or so and calling someone a retard won't be offensive. It'll be an outdated term on par w/ "idiot" or "moron."

[nothumb]

Excuse me Eric,

You posted this in the wrong forum. This forum is for poker related news and gossip. I believe you are looking for the 'other other topics' forum. Or politics, if you want to hear a bunch of people call you an elitist liberal snob.

Which you are, and you've probably just got a retarded brother or something. Everyone I know who hates that word has one.

NT