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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I stopped policing other people's speech regarding this word when my close friend with a severely mentally handicapped child referred to something as "retarded". I don't use the term but honestly this huge campaign just seems like overkill. I work wil special needs people and I or their family members/other care takers would never refer to them as "retarded" or "retards". In the campaign with the girl from glee she says "it's not okay to call me retarded" and it's not. We don't refer to disabled people as retarded. This is different from the fact that using "gay" as a descriptor is bad because people actually identify as gay. Intellectually disabled people don't identify as "retards".[/quote]
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