Not at all. Those words were never acceptable, however, I did notice you throw out the k*ke word every chance you get.
See retard has been an acceptable shortening for mental retardation until the last 10 or so years. The reason it's not acceptable anymore because people call other people retards as if being handicapped is a bad thing. I wasn't using it that way. If I said he was acting like a black man then that would be an insult. But saying stop using your black man voice isn't an insult to anyone. Maybe a better example is substituting Negro for black man. Some how Negro became a bad word the same as black is becoming the new bad word. I'm too international to use African American. That assumes all blacks now live in America. As for my best friends are... You claimed you used to work with... I still do. On 8/14/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For clarity I meant to type I did NOT say he was a retard, but he was > >implying I was. Now that that's out of the way, are you one of those > >PC morons? Woops, I just offended your entire group. > > > >If I said he had a low IQ wouldn't that be an insult to everyone with a low > >IQ? > >If I said he was ugly wouldn't that be like sticking a verbal knife > >through the gut of every unattractive person? Where does it end? I'm > >not making fun of people with the handicap, I'm telling him to stop > >mocking them. > > > >I should also mention my eight year old neighbor has Down syndrome and > >is over my house every day. He's my four-year-old daughters best > >friend. > > > > Let me put it in context. So then its ok to say that a person is like a > n****r or a k*ke? That is perfectly justifiable? Its the same sort of crap > that the KKK or the Nazis say. > > As for that last sentance, so what you are in essence saying is "Some of my > best friends are ..." etc. > > Cut the hate speech. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240203 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
