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Originally Posted by btimbit
I personally will continue to use this word, just as I continue to use "gay". If I feel it describes a situation, the word will get used. But it will not be used to put others down, or especially not to insult handicapped people.
Why is this not good enough?
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It is not good enough because the situation you are describing is one for which you have contempt. If you said, "I ######ed the forward progress of my car by applying the brakes." that would be totally acceptable. If you say Kevin Lowe is ######ed because of how he runs the Oilers, you are attributing the diminished skills and mental acuity of a person with a condition, through no fault of their own, to apply to another person. I fail to see how this would not be hurtful to that person or the people that love them.
You can choose to live your life however you want and say whatever you want. You don't have to agree. That is the beauty of living in a mostly free society.
But if you actually stop and think about the word and why you are saying it then perhaps you will not be so cavalier about your attitude. Or you will decide it is dumb and you don't care what people think and keep using the terms. It really is up to you.
The point is to have people think about it.
The last point I would like to make builds on my one above. How awesome would the word be to you if your child was born autistic, or with Downs or any of the hundreds of other conditions that ######s their mental or physical development or is homosexual? Then your child, which you presumably love with all your heart, is being used to demonstrate how stupid you think Kevin Lowe is.
Would that not sting just a little?