Democrat’s Bill Uses The Word Retarded
Jul 26, 2009 Political
Though I find nothing wrong or demeaning when using the word retarded in medical descriptions, the word has been maligned over the years and advocates for the developmentally disabled do not like it. There are so many negative connotations that they prefer it not be used.
The health care bill the Democrats are pushing forward uses the word retarded in describing facilities that treat the developmentally disabled.
The proposed health-insurance bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as “retarded” — a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive.
The bill refers to: “A hospital or a nursing facility or intermediate-care facility for the mentally retarded . . .” New York Post
This is not an inappropriate statement. Mental retardation has a medical definition (listed in the DSM-IV) and there are parameters which are used to diagnose someone as mentally retarded. One of the parameters is an IQ below 70.
While advocates oppose the word and its use the fact is, it is a medical term and is used to describe the developmentally disabled.
That description is much different than the description of retard when used to describe members of Congress. That would be the one that has led advocates to call for people not to use the term.
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All Suicide Bombers are Mentally Retarded
Feb 1, 2008 Political
This is from Breitbart:
Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives—and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers—brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
Obviously these women were used by people with remote devices either because they would not or could not detonate the devices themselves. It would seem that the terrorists used these women who had a mental problem preventing them from taking their own decisions. In other words, they were exploited, which is what Muslims do to women most of the time anyway.
I would submit that anyone who straps a bomb on and detonates it is mentally retarded. Only a complete mental midget would willingly strap on a bomb and blow himself up. People who have no brain defects do this all the time in the Muslim world and no one forces them or has to detonate the devices by remote because they do it willingly.
When one compares women with actual retardation who are exploited for this purpose and those who do it willingly one has to conclude that the retards are more sound in mind. They had no choice and if they did would probably elect not to do so. The real retards do this as if it is a badge of honor or some right of passage.
It is nothing more than the display of poor brain function. True retardation.
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