Featured Using the "R" word

That's right. That's how deep my avoidance of the blowhard known as Rush Limbaugh runs.

 

I found that I agreed with Whoopi that originally the word was used to get rid of other ancient categories that were more offensive. However, the new term was misused in the fifties. That's where I agreed with BaBa WaWa. I also agreed that Bill Maher did it on purpose to offend.

However, I have to admit that people call me informationally handicapped because I don't know nothing. Along these lines of name calling, Hollywood made a movie a few years ago about deaf people called Children of a Lesser God. I thought that title was very offensive to the human race and to the Holy Trinity.

 

I agreed with Whoopi when she said the term "retarded" originally meant "slow" and a person was not labeled thus in a derogatory manner. It just meant the one was slow. Over the years it became derogatory. I think Barbara Walters said the same thing.

Was Bill Maher right in saying what he did about the child? Yes, and No. The child is slow, which is what the word means. But Bill was using the word in a derogatory manner, to offend.

 

I think you all are still missing the point of the OP.

What Salty posted:

"Rush Limbaugh calls child of Liberal retarded."

What the actual title of the link is:

"Maher Calls Palin's Son Retarded...."

C'mon Salty, don't keep us in suspense. What's your point? That people usually don't read the links before commenting?

 

Could be. I know Salty has a habit of posting provocative thread titles and then embedding a clickable link inside the thread without so much as a comment of his own. After a while I find myself not even bothering with clicking on the link since Salty is not saying anything on his own, merely providing links to outside material. I can surf the web on my own, I'm more interested in what Baptists on Baptist Board have to say about things.