Let's Throw this Word Away

This is a video created by youth in Arlington, Virginia to raise awareness about the hurtfulness of using the word 'retard'

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Special Olympics retard
• retarded
• youth
• change
• action
• basketball
• trash
• he shoots he scores

[ILuvmydukz]

.....it goes in recycling....

[TheAngryOtaku]

We "retards" are put on this earth for your entertainment. lol I kid I kid. Look at these kids in the video, not a single one has any kind of disability. You want to show respect?! How about not giving us special treatment, and acting like we are diseased, and helpless.  You normal people are RETARDED. Pledge? What are we? Nazis? Change the word and the meaning stays the same: Differently abled, disabled, less fortunate, get real. 1 year ago

[101GirlChristian]

@TheAngryOtaku Hi TheAngry Otaku I just wanted to let you know that we are part of this world too and have feelings like everybody else and we can still do the same things everyone else can just in a different way. Don't discriminate Apprecaite! I know what it's like to feel so alone in a world that doesn't accept us because they are afraid of our diseases but we are all angels on the inside.

[justtim]

Good for you!

[jagovRUS]

When will these morons understand that this horrendously stupid 'movement' is just the new thought-police Gestapo for the 21st century?

[MentisInDeum]

I don't understand this movement

[Wonderwoman101868]

Great job, love the visual of it just being thrown around, and then tossing it in the trash where it belongs!

[MrLawrenceV]

this video is doubleplusgood.

[tim12crl]

Use of the word "Retarded" in any context other than "something that is slowed" or someone with an intellectual disability just shows a general lack of vocabulary.

[holepunchofdoom]

this entire year i have been working with people who have mental and/or physical disabilities and they are my babies.

and i don't wanna hear anyone making fun of my babies, thank you. so this means a lot to me