(August 6, 2016 at 6:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What the fuck is WRONG with some people?
Have any of you had an experience like this, someone blatantly crossing boundaries than any normal, sensible person wouldn't even consider doing?
Boru
Yes. My oldest was two years old when the neighborhood drunk approached us (we were sitting on a blanket on the front lawn). She proceeded to ask me how my "mongoloid child" was doing. I politely corrected her, telling her that that term hasn't been used in over 40 years, and the correct term is Down syndrome. Then I said my daughter was fine, picked my little one up and went inside.
About three weeks later, the same ignorant lady came back up to me and insulted my child yet again with that phrase. This time, I could smell the alcohol on her from five feet away and I told her that if she continued to insult my daughter, I was going to knock her teeth down her throat. She then said something else and I got up, started approaching her and she decided she said too much and took off.
I really hate people who refuse to be educated on stuff like that. Sorry, but people don't get a free pass just because they are used to using terminology that's no longer accepted. My daughter has Down syndrome. It's a part of her chromosomes, but it is not WHO she is. It's not Mongolism, or being a Mongoloid. That is not only an insult to the wonderful people who come from Mongolia, but it is also an insult to people with Down syndrome ( who also don't happen to come from Mongolia).
I'll never forget my own grandmother, when told her great-grandchild was going to be born with Down syndrome, asked me if it could be cured. Needless to say, she got an education as well.
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