Hate crimes, hateful speech, discrimination, (akin to no race baiting)

**cowboy** · 10-10-2010, 05:29 PM

I am disgusted by those individuals who feel that calling people with disabilities derogatory names is acceptable. It is no more appropriate or acceptable than calling someone a "N....r"
Mayfair Meat is a prime example of a poster who continually does it.
Just as you do not allow race baiting, please do not allow hateful speech or derogatory/ slang references to those with disabilities.

**ArcticSplash** · 10-10-2010, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by cowboy

I am disgusted by those individuals who feel that calling people with disabilities derogatory names is acceptable. It is no more appropriate or acceptable than calling someone a "N....r"
Mayfair Meat is a prime example of a poster who continually does it.
Just as you do not allow race baiting, please do not allow hateful speech or derogatory/ slang references to those with disabilities.

Congratulations on your 20th post.

**NE19149** · 10-11-2010, 01:02 AM

Ya know, if people.... those "sensitive" people.... would accept the realities of current society.... and focused on real issues instead of silly name-calling and namby-pamby stuff like that, we'd have a lot less posts on here.

"Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me"
Ya ever hear of that cute ditty?
Well, apply it.

Now push on.

**cerberus413** · 10-11-2010, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by MayfairMeat

Congratulations on your 20th post.

Im pretty close to 4,000 myself.

**hkp** · 10-11-2010, 06:44 PM

Derp.

**NJbound** · 10-11-2010, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by cowboy

I am disgusted by those individuals who feel that calling people with disabilities derogatory names is acceptable. It is no more appropriate or acceptable than calling someone a "N....r"
Mayfair Meat is a prime example of a poster who continually does it.
Just as you do not allow race baiting, please do not allow hateful speech or derogatory/ slang references to those with disabilities.

I agree.... Some people really don't realize how hurtful they can be..

**DCnPhilly** · 10-13-2010, 11:52 AM

Really? Please provide an example, or perhaps a list of all sensitive topics we are not allowed to discuss. Oh wait, this is a message board and is meant to encourage discussion of sometimes sensitive subjects.

Sticks and stones, baby. You give labels power by banning them. If someone's ignorant - and I assure you Mayfair is not - then that is their problem. As a minority, I can handle my own and don't want special treatment, and I would assume any self respecting individual - able-bodied or not - would want the same. Don't sit people at the retard table to protect them from themselves.

**cerberus413** · 10-13-2010, 06:43 PM

So how is this hurtful?

Universal Studios is taking heat from both Hollywood insiders, bloggers, and even Anderson Cooper over the new Ron Howard movie The Dilemma. And, no, it’s not about the fact that they want us to believe Vince Vaughn and Kevin James could pull Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder, but rather the trailer which opens with a gay joke. Now Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Universal will alter the offending preview.

The movie is about a man discovering that his best friend’s wife is having an affair. Its trailer opens with Vaughn explaining to a room of business executives that “electric cars are gay.” He quickly points out that he doesn’t mean “homosexual gay,” which, in theory, is supposed to totally mitigate any offense. However, some viewers have been put off by the random gay joke in a trailer for a movie that has nothing to do with gay themes. Some, like Cooper, are even connecting it to the recent rash of teen suicides. Appearing on Ellen, Cooper used the trailer as an example of a culture that is all too permissive of anti-gay bullying and insults.

Link

So calling electric cars "gay" is offensive?

Wow....really?

Oh im sorry.....its used as a pejorative...right?

**mixiboi** · 10-13-2010, 06:58 PM

Its compicated. It's more of bad timing then anything else.

If didn't happen when a couple of kids just off themselves for being gay due to the abuse that came with being gay, it would have gotten a pass.

Just like the bombing of some mountains in Afghanistan after 9/11, the gay community just needed a faux victory. It really doesn't change that the word gay is still being used in negative terms, but they don't mean gay people(whatever that means), but it lets some sleep better at night.

I rather that faux victory been this *******, but whatever, he can be Iraq.

**DCnPhilly** · 10-14-2010, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by cerberus413

So how is this hurtful?

Link

So calling electric cars "gay" is offensive?

Wow....really?

Oh im sorry.....its used as a pejorative...right?

That's a bit of an extreme reaction (the article, not you). First of all, as a gay man, I'm tired of these suicidal kids being used as martyrs and cited everytime something "gay" hits the internet or TV. Vince Vaughn didn't kill anyone and neither did his joke. These kids made their own decisions, and if you really need to blame anyone but them, look at their teachers and guidence councelors, not Hollywood. We didn't always have Ellen, Anderson Cooper, and Kathy Griffin all over YouTube telling us it was okay to be gay, and somehow most of us made it out of the latter half of the 20th Century just fine, or at least alive. Teen suicide has always been a problem, not just a gay problem. There is a valid psychological reason certain kids feel it's an acceptable way out, and that reason isn't gay jokes and Vince Vaughn.

As for the joke, I hate when people use "gay" to mean lame or stupid. It's just, so...gay.

However, I don't think that this is what the OP is referring to. He said something about disabilities.

**CHIOSSO** · 10-15-2010, 03:21 AM

Some people just cant take a joke. Lighten up, Francis and pull the stick out of your ass.

**jedi mind fart** · 10-15-2010, 07:37 AM

Is it me or is the OP retarded ? I mean I know Cerb is slightly retarded but not full retard . Note to OP never go full retard .

**jedi mind fart** · 10-15-2010, 07:50 AM

re·tard 1 (r-tärd)
v. re·tard·ed, re·tard·ing, re·tards
v.tr.
To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.
v.intr.
To be delayed.
n.
1. A slowing down or hindering of progress; a delay.
2. Music A slackening of tempo.
[Middle English retarden, from Old French retarder, from Latin retardre : re-, re- + tardre, to delay (from tardus, slow).]

**jedi mind fart** · 10-15-2010, 10:51 AM

I'm sorry but I have to .

**DCnPhilly** · 10-15-2010, 11:26 AM

Oh you are just the worst kind of person.

**jedi mind fart** · 10-15-2010, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by DCnPhilly

Oh you are just the worst kind of person.

I try !

**jedi mind fart** · 10-15-2010, 11:40 AM

What the OP doesn't understand is ...

**jedi mind fart** · 10-15-2010, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by DCnPhilly

That's a bit of an extreme reaction (the article, not you). First of all, as a gay man, I'm tired of these suicidal kids being used as martyrs and cited everytime something "gay" hits the internet or TV. Vince Vaughn didn't kill anyone and neither did his joke. These kids made their own decisions, and if you really need to blame anyone but them, look at their teachers and guidence councelors, not Hollywood. We didn't always have Ellen, Anderson Cooper, and Kathy Griffin all over YouTube telling us it was okay to be gay, and somehow most of us made it out of the latter half of the 20th Century just fine, or at least alive. Teen suicide has always been a problem, not just a gay problem. There is a valid psychological reason certain kids feel it's an acceptable way out, and that reason isn't gay jokes and Vince Vaughn.

As for the joke, I hate when people use "gay" to mean lame or stupid. It's just, so...gay.

However, I don't think that this is what the OP is referring to. He said something about disabilities.

I think this whole thread is pretty gay, not that theres anything wrong with that .

**Mr. Brightside** · 10-17-2010, 11:35 AM

Listen Cowboy,

The lack of support your post has received leads me to one inescapable conclusion. Persons with disabilities need a more powerful lobby to manufacture outrage every time some uses the term retard.

No one seems to be feeling you bro.