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Originally Posted by badgeguy
I do not like any derrogotive words, the "r" and "n" words are very offensive to me...
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There's nothing I can see in the context of this thread or in general that would prompt you to put these two terms in the same category or even mention the second at all.
Anne Coulter's opinion means very little to me but, given how large her audience is, her poor word choice is that much more unfortunate. Most of my friends who used to say the r-word regularly no longer do so because of NephewCG. Most of them know that he has a developmental disability--if they don't, they get very uncomfortable and apologize when I tell them why the word offends me. I'm never rude about it because people don't usually wake up and say "I'm going to offend lots of people today." I make it a point to say it nonchalantly (not as a sob story meant to make them feel badly) because there is nothing wrong with my nephew and flying off the handle might come across as me being ashamed in how he's different. But I will never forget the day he came home, told his mother someone on the playground had called him a "retard," and asked what it meant. That memory is enough to make anyone want to never say it again. I give most people a lot of leeway because it's easy to ignore the offensiveness when you don't have a personal story like that--it's VERY difficult to give the same slack to Anne Coulter.