Stop the R word

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Stop the hate speech: r-word dot org

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Posted on March 21st, 2009.
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7 Comments

  1. tony:
    March 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    YES! It really pisses me off when i see the R_Word……You see it Sooo often with folks from the States.For all Britain’s Politically-correctness, at least nobody uses THAT word in the UK anymore.

  2. HAMMER:
    March 21st, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    It’s one of those words that was mainstream when I was growing up. Teachers would often admonish the students in my class by calling them that.

    I remember parents of my friends scolding their kids by calling them a R…

    Then there were all the countless jokes.

    I think evil intentions are more dangerous than words.

    If someone says it out of habit or ignorance that’s one thing but if it’s being used to torment a challenged person it’s quite another.

    It’s not hate speech unless there is hate behind the words.

    Just my 2cents

  3. Fleecy:
    March 21st, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    I agree it’s worse when there’s a bad intent behind the word…
    But the key here in “habit or ignorance” is ignorance, and once somebody knows how offensive a word like that can be, it stops being culturally-instilled habit and becomes something the person is personally responsible for. That’s something I’ve been meaning to write about, this whole “r-word” thing…

  4. Club 166:
    March 21st, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    In Russia they just came out with a chocolate-vanilla ice cream combination that they are marketing with a picture of the US Capitol with a caricature of Barack Obama standing in front of it.

    The Russians said that they aren’t prejudiced, it’s just a joke.

    I see people’s justification for continuing use of the R-word after being informed that it is offensive in the same light.

    Joe

  5. Jocelyn:
    March 21st, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Och. It makes me sick.

  6. Steve M:
    March 23rd, 2009 at 7:02 am

    Hey, use of the “R” word “…was like the Special Olympics or something.”

    Attitude all the way to the top.

  7. Corky:
    April 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    We should just go back to calling them all imbeciles and morons.

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