Quote:Neo-Scholastic Wrote: [url=https://atheistforums.org/post-1566728.html#pid1566728][/url]Kind of like the way people on this forum bandy around the word "retard" i.e. creatard, etc. For those of us, like me who work with the mentally challenged, we find it hurtful and stigmatizing. At the same time we teach our members that it says more about the name-callers, their lack of class and ignorance and nothing about the mentally challenged. They won't let other people take away their dignity as human beings. In that way they are stronger than more noble than anyone using the word retard or derivatives like creatard
Accept it has nothing to do with insulting the mentally challenged . It's an attack on people who say stupid things or believe stupid things. Not a reference to anyone suffering a legitimate mental issue .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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