Thursday, 23 February 2017

The R Word Pledge And The Reasons Of Its Importance

By Douglas Howard


The only campaign that was launched for encouraging people to pledge in stopping the utilization of the word retard. The campaign advocates have said that making use of this term in everyday or in colloquial speech is so much hurtful and will dehumanize the intellectually disabled individuals. Advocates are advocating on the use respectful languages for the sake of the dignity of a person.

The advocates have their belief as well that individuals with cognitive disabilities or with some developmental disabilities can be capable of enjoying life experiences. They also have casual references, stating that spitting out this term to one particular person can make him or her less than human. And for this reason, having the R word pledge is very necessary.

Retard would really mean a lot to the disabled persons whenever they hear it, and even to those who really care for them. For them, this means that they are not like those normal ones and are far different from them. And they often think that they are the kinds of people that no one would ever want to be, and thus, making them feel they are being left alone.

All words would really matter when being used anywhere and anytime. There is no need to scoff about something towards others just to make a point. Each person has his or her gift and what is important is to recognize these gifts. This literally means, and through this, the world will surely become better.

When this retard word is spoken, it is similar to saying someone is being stupid or is mentally handicapped. Usually, the term is being stated or spoken in a way which is the most disrespectful. And thus, this would simply imply that stupidity is said to be one main characteristic of an individual who is mentally handicapped.

Before, a lot have believed that spoken words are much hurtful compared to the actions being done, most especially when awareness is already there concerning how your oral transgression can make a great impact. So this means hearing inappropriate words is so much hurtful. Thus, when peppering words such as retard and retarded means hurt is also being spread.

Hate speech is a common expression that is termed for this since it is not only hurting those having some developmental disabilities like intellectually but as well as those who are caring for them and supporting them. This can both alienate and exclude them. Some are still believing and continuously applying the traditional rule of hiding away and segregating these people from a society.

And because this is now considered a casual description to flaws and to negativity, this word retard is not considered anymore as appropriate for intellectually disabled persons. And thus, it would be hurtful to make use of in any way like as slang or as not intended for being offensive. This is because associating this with persons who have mental disabilities is still done.

There are really a lot of people who do not understand how much they hurt other people when they hate or maybe they have not realized yet that they are hating. However, they need to know that at times when they take preemptive dismissal, dehumanize, and mock them, these are forms of hate already. This can be more hateful than sexism, racism, etc.




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