The Retarded Controversy: Lay off Rahm Emanuel already! By Jack Shafer

[oberliner]

Excerpt:

According to a press release put out over Shriver's name, Emanuel has promised that "the administration would continue to look for ways to partner with us, including examining pending legislation in Congress to remove the R word from federal law." The release also reiterates the activists' ambitions to eradicate the words retard and retarded from everyday speech because they dehumanize the nation's "seven million people with intellectual disabilities."

The quest to protect the vulnerable from ridicule may be noble, but if a Slate piece from 2001 by John Cook is any guide, it's an impossible quest—and the activists know it. In thrusting public scorn on Emanuel, the activists—no matter how high-minded they might be—are guilty of craven opportunism. Emanuel may have a big mouth, but he is no bigot, no torturer of the defenseless, and the language police that swarmed and handcuffed him, Palin included, should have their badges revoked.

http://www.slate.com/id/2243728/

[tularetom]

1. Palin is an opportunist and increasingly irrelevant

but if she still has enough clout to help us get rid of Emanuel why shouldn't we let her?

We can still trash her while she does us a favor.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Only if she gets rid of Limpballs too.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ChicagoSuz219]

4. Question

Hi... how do I get my Smilies to work again? They worked for awhile, then stopped... ??

[omega minimo]

3. Asshole just called Shriver a douchebag

"Instead of normalizing attitudes and perceptions, Shriver's scolding tactics shove everybody outside his circle into a crouch, begging for his forgiveness.
That—and I mean no offense to the infirm—is lame."