Spread the Word to End the Word
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The words we use have power to build each other up, or tear each other down. Spread the Word to End the Word encourage people to pledge to eliminate the derogatory use of the word "retard" or "retarded" from their everyday speech. Join our community to promote a new r-word: respect!
Special thanks to volunteer Leanne Hyer and videographer Jonathan Thorpe for producing this excellent PSA!
"Choose a different word, okay?"
Joker: "Very poor choice of words! HAHAHA"
Eat your cereal
I have autism. and when it comes to having a developmental disability which is health related, the r word is never the answer. Screw discrimination!
For a second I thought he said Hogwarts instead of R-word. That’s my fault for not turning up the volume. My aunt has Down’s Syndrome and I love her. She is very kind.
If anyone called her that word, I’d be angry.
However, I am against eliminating that word.
I think it should just take on a new meaning.
If you keep eliminating words, you are inventing Newspeak. Don’t do that, please.
Besides, the word isn’t the problem, it’s the kind of people who say it are the problem.
They’ll just use another word like autistic.
That offends me because I am autistic.
Ok, I’m rambling and I see your point.
Spartan Goku agreed to a degree. all the words we use for « dumb » pretty much all we’re used as medical terms to describe intellectual disability.
Spread the word to n word
1:55 “just use a different word ok?”
Oh ya that’s so much worse than being attacked molested neglected and treated like a living atm in a group home for disabled adults ya nothing worse than the r word ya we’re animals lacking complex emotions far as society is concerned keep up the good work
Many people grossly underestimate the serious negative impact this word has upon the mentally disabled. No matter where it's used in, a slur is still a slur and I'm surprised using it hasn't become a capital offense yet.
Liberal retard says what??
The only R word I'll use is the word RESPECT.
That's retarded
1. No one under amy circumstances should make fun of someone's disability. 2. Unfortunately, less desirable and or bad things are bad, whatever the name for those conditions or things, over time the word for that cobdition will become slang or be colloquially used as an insite. The phrase mental retardation was a PC term because the words idiot and moron became offensive. Guess what, ID or intellectual disability or "intee" or something will become an insult soon. Im sorry but it is essentially certain.
The cold reality is that normal people dont want to have mental disabilities, as such, some of them will always use insults based around conditions of being mentally disabled
It’s called Freedom of Speech. We can say “retard” all we fucking want, and if you don’t like it, oh well.
Agreed
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequences…. So if you say the r word and you get knocked tf out then don’t say shit
You can say it all you want, but you'll only make yourself look like a tool. Most grown-ass adults who still use the word "retard" as a slur or insult aren't exactly known for their maturity or emotional tact. It's the same with people who say "that's so gay". You have free speech, but when you say it, you're making yourself sound like a dumb teenage boy. The beautiful thing about freedom of speech is that if you want to talk like a bigot and a troll you can, the world will treat you like a bigot and a troll as a result. You can't take it back if you embarrass yourself by saying something rotten and nobody respects you for it.
@Crazy Eights Well, free speech is a thing as the OP said, so if you're going to seriously admit to using such a childish phrase when nobody ever asked you to admit it here, don't get in a hissy fit if people point out to you how much of a jerk you're being. Nobody's going to force you to stop, but a lot of so-called "slang" words are, whether you like it or not, derogatory. "midget", "spaz", "n*gger," "fag" all have "contexts", but that doesn't mean it isn't hurtful when you use them. It just shows you're probably some man-baby with a limited vocabulary and nothing more creative to say, which is your every right, but it's not very complimentary to you as a person. The only people over the age of 12 I've ever heard using the word "retard" in casual slang are the losers who hang out behind a dumpster at the local mall where I live, and most of them are unemployed.
Agreed, Freedom of speech, its a WORD.
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@@B_g1117 I'm with you on that.