Do you think she’ll sue to have this one taken down too, inadvertently raising awareness of the increasing rate of children are born with special needs?
This has been up 6 hours and some lemming hasn’t shouted “REEEEE ABLEIST SLURRRRR!” from the rooftops? Color me surprised.
Ok, now climb down from that rooftop before you fall or something
Oof.
I just looked up the history of ARC (previously NARC). It started in the 30’s when Retarded was the medical term for intellectual disability. Now that Retarded is a pejorative they changed their name to ARC (no longer an acronym) in the 90’s.
Looks pretty heinous today but when this ran it was probably an acceptable use of the word.
I can’t speak to the text of the PSA though, I got lost in the Wiki rabbit hole trying to figure that out.
Retardation is a technical term as well. An engine retarder is one that slows the compression to ease the performance. I don’t think it was intended to be malicious, but it ended up that way.
Yeah for sure. Retard is fine in a lot of instances but using it as an insult to refer to people is the pajorative, and it makes sense that an organization catering to intellectual disabilities would want to distance themselves. Isn’t language fun. I am still reeling from the new slang the kids invented.
Is this real?
I’m sure the ad is real, although I don’t know it for a fact. It is still a real organization, though the name changed 30ish years ago. It was between 10 and 15 years ago that Obama signed Rosa’s law, changing the words in federal law to “mental disability” or “an individual with an intellectual disability”.
Remember, there was a time when that wasn’t a pejorative term. It was a diagnosis. The way people used the word to “other” those with disabilities is what made it pejorative. Prior to that it was a neutral term.
A lot of terms used to make fun of intelligence used to be a diagnosis, like idiot and imbecile. That’s really neither here nor there, but I find it interesting how mental medical diagnoses become insults but physical ones don’t. I’ve never had someone yell “you play baseball like a paraplegic!” at me.
Edit: I was wrong and have been corrected. See below.
I think “cripple” is considered pejorative, though I don’t know if it was ever a medical term.
Spazz is a pejorative term derived from spasticity.
I didn’t know that!
Lame.
Shit, that’s another one I forgot about. And the delivery was well played.
This is why we have voluntary abortion.
What’s your problem with Barbara Streisand?
Yes, only voluntary abortion can prevent Barbara Streisand
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