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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This.
It's definitely an insult, but it's not in reference to people with developmental delays. At least not anymore.[/quote]

Then why do people with intellectual disabilities consistently, in my experience, think that the word applies to them?

I would never call a gay person a "fag", but I understand that it is still derogatory to gay people to use that word as an insult   I don't call black people nigger, but I still know that it is insulting to them.  Why would this word be different?  [/quote]

My gay friends and black friends both use the terms fag/nigger
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OK I am not sure how that's relevant.  Are you saying you have many friends with ID who use the r-word so you feel OK with it? [/quote]

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