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	<title>Comments on: Cripples, Retards and Politically Correct Euphemism.</title>
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		<title>By: Sotiris</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-92355</link>
		<dc:creator>Sotiris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Finally reading somewhere your view, so clarid and well-put, is a nice feeling. I&#039;m 100% convinced any &quot;disabilitated&quot; person would appreciate more &quot;someone who respects them for who they are, means well to them, and calls them retards/cripples/etc.&quot; than &quot;someone who addresses them politically correct, and then proceeds to ignore their very existence, because it&#039;s inconvenient&quot;.

I was in a relationship with a cripple when I was 18. She had a damaged spine and couldn&#039;t even feel her legs. We split up after a couple of months, because she was a manipulative bitch, but that&#039;s another story. I&#039;m fairly certain a large chunk of how she became such a manipulative bitch was due to how she was treated by people addressing her &quot;politically correct&quot; and then pretending she was never there, cause it was uncomfortable for them. It was her natural reaction, she wanted things too, and she had only one way to get them. Manipulate her way to them. Use her sharp brain. Makes me wonder how much better things would&#039;ve been for her, if people actually -saw- her there, instead of turning a blind eye. She wouldn&#039;t have grown up like that, and that sharp brain would&#039;ve had much better use instead of trying to snatch what she can, like a vulture, because that&#039;s how she was tossed aside as.

Words are sounds to carry a message. That message depends both on the transmitter and on the recipient. I can splurt out a bunch of greek words to you, words &quot;with meaning&quot;, &quot;beautiful&quot; words, &quot;extremely offensive&quot; words. Will you feel offended by a word you don&#039;t know? No. Why? Because you don&#039;t give a meaning to it, as a recipient, no matter how much meaning I may give to it as a transmitter.

So many times I&#039;ve been sitting on my pc, with a smile on my face, good or neutral mood, discussing about something and receiving a bitter offended reaction. Because it&#039;s text. Because the recipient -felt- insulted/attacked.. when in fact I hadn&#039;t lifted a finger to insult/attack them. No, I generally don&#039;t feel I should be apologetic for that kind of &quot;insult&quot;. The recipient chose to interprete my words in a way so to be insulted, that&#039;s none of my god damn problem.

I can call you a &quot;lovely chap&quot; in a very very sarcastic way, so bitterly and acidly that you will feel your stomach knot. I can call you a &quot;retard&quot; and receive a pat and a hug, or a pint of beer. Words, words, words. They are worth shit, without the intent and the recipient. I wonder how many millenia will go by till mankind figures it out. Then again, maybe we already have, just.. refuse to face it (once again).

I really couldn&#039;t care less if someone dislikes my opinion. If that&#039;s the case, I probably dislike theirs too, so it&#039;s all cool. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally reading somewhere your view, so clarid and well-put, is a nice feeling. I&#8217;m 100% convinced any &#8220;disabilitated&#8221; person would appreciate more &#8220;someone who respects them for who they are, means well to them, and calls them retards/cripples/etc.&#8221; than &#8220;someone who addresses them politically correct, and then proceeds to ignore their very existence, because it&#8217;s inconvenient&#8221;.</p>
<p>I was in a relationship with a cripple when I was 18. She had a damaged spine and couldn&#8217;t even feel her legs. We split up after a couple of months, because she was a manipulative bitch, but that&#8217;s another story. I&#8217;m fairly certain a large chunk of how she became such a manipulative bitch was due to how she was treated by people addressing her &#8220;politically correct&#8221; and then pretending she was never there, cause it was uncomfortable for them. It was her natural reaction, she wanted things too, and she had only one way to get them. Manipulate her way to them. Use her sharp brain. Makes me wonder how much better things would&#8217;ve been for her, if people actually -saw- her there, instead of turning a blind eye. She wouldn&#8217;t have grown up like that, and that sharp brain would&#8217;ve had much better use instead of trying to snatch what she can, like a vulture, because that&#8217;s how she was tossed aside as.</p>
<p>Words are sounds to carry a message. That message depends both on the transmitter and on the recipient. I can splurt out a bunch of greek words to you, words &#8220;with meaning&#8221;, &#8220;beautiful&#8221; words, &#8220;extremely offensive&#8221; words. Will you feel offended by a word you don&#8217;t know? No. Why? Because you don&#8217;t give a meaning to it, as a recipient, no matter how much meaning I may give to it as a transmitter.</p>
<p>So many times I&#8217;ve been sitting on my pc, with a smile on my face, good or neutral mood, discussing about something and receiving a bitter offended reaction. Because it&#8217;s text. Because the recipient -felt- insulted/attacked.. when in fact I hadn&#8217;t lifted a finger to insult/attack them. No, I generally don&#8217;t feel I should be apologetic for that kind of &#8220;insult&#8221;. The recipient chose to interprete my words in a way so to be insulted, that&#8217;s none of my god damn problem.</p>
<p>I can call you a &#8220;lovely chap&#8221; in a very very sarcastic way, so bitterly and acidly that you will feel your stomach knot. I can call you a &#8220;retard&#8221; and receive a pat and a hug, or a pint of beer. Words, words, words. They are worth shit, without the intent and the recipient. I wonder how many millenia will go by till mankind figures it out. Then again, maybe we already have, just.. refuse to face it (once again).</p>
<p>I really couldn&#8217;t care less if someone dislikes my opinion. If that&#8217;s the case, I probably dislike theirs too, so it&#8217;s all cool. <img src='http://bocktherobber.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Words, language, attitudes and actions - People of NI -</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-91574</link>
		<dc:creator>Words, language, attitudes and actions - People of NI -</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] in the list. It&#039;s the &quot;euphemism treadmill&quot; argument, and it&#039;s explained in this blog comment;This sort of process (words becoming offensive and being replaced by new terms that end up becoming [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] in the list. It&#39;s the &quot;euphemism treadmill&quot; argument, and it&#39;s explained in this blog comment;This sort of process (words becoming offensive and being replaced by new terms that end up becoming [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan- Louisville, KY</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-89951</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan- Louisville, KY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You said everything precisely how I think it. It is sad how our structure (as a whole) is very much weakened by political correctness. Tragic how remorseful society has become for so many things that are of sheer ignorance and stupidity. If is say to you my friend is a short person or is a little person, it&#039;s doubtful any one would know exactly what I was in reference to. However, if I say my friend Tom is a midget, there is no gray areas or no wondering whether it is a person who is 4&#039; 9&quot; or is a 3&#039; midget. There is a huge difference in terminology and perceptions of them. To all who made this page possible, thank you for being as I am accused of being &quot;BRUTALLY HONEST&quot; !!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You said everything precisely how I think it. It is sad how our structure (as a whole) is very much weakened by political correctness. Tragic how remorseful society has become for so many things that are of sheer ignorance and stupidity. If is say to you my friend is a short person or is a little person, it&#8217;s doubtful any one would know exactly what I was in reference to. However, if I say my friend Tom is a midget, there is no gray areas or no wondering whether it is a person who is 4&#8242; 9&#8243; or is a 3&#8242; midget. There is a huge difference in terminology and perceptions of them. To all who made this page possible, thank you for being as I am accused of being &#8220;BRUTALLY HONEST&#8221; !!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Bock</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-89648</link>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rosemary -- That makes perfect sense.  Your behaviour and mine is what determines how we should be treated, not our physical state.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rosemary &#8212; That makes perfect sense.  Your behaviour and mine is what determines how we should be treated, not our physical state.</p>
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		<title>By: Rosemary</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-89644</link>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m a wheelchair user, that&#039;s how I prefer to describe my disability. I&#039;ve been called all kinds of things some deeply offensive and some very funny.  PC gets on my nerves and I believe it stops us from discussing issues such as race, sex, disability discrimination etc for fear that we might use an incorrect term.  All I ask is that you show me the same level of respect or disrespect which my behaviour merits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a wheelchair user, that&#8217;s how I prefer to describe my disability. I&#8217;ve been called all kinds of things some deeply offensive and some very funny.  PC gets on my nerves and I believe it stops us from discussing issues such as race, sex, disability discrimination etc for fear that we might use an incorrect term.  All I ask is that you show me the same level of respect or disrespect which my behaviour merits.</p>
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		<title>By: Bock</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-86558</link>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fucking right!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fucking right!</p>
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		<title>By: chephy</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-86557</link>
		<dc:creator>chephy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This sort of process (words becoming offensive and being replaced by new terms that end up becoming pejorative over time only to be replaced by more and more cumbersome and ridiculous expressions and so on and so forth ad infinitum) is known as the euphemism treadmill.  And people who keep insisting on keeping this treadmill going are fucking retards (I hope the actual innocent retards forgive me for using this innocent word pejoratively).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This sort of process (words becoming offensive and being replaced by new terms that end up becoming pejorative over time only to be replaced by more and more cumbersome and ridiculous expressions and so on and so forth ad infinitum) is known as the euphemism treadmill.  And people who keep insisting on keeping this treadmill going are fucking retards (I hope the actual innocent retards forgive me for using this innocent word pejoratively).</p>
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		<title>By: tom sheepandgoats</title>
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		<dc:creator>tom sheepandgoats</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When i was a kid, people would routinely say &quot;I&#039;ll kill you for that,&quot; such as my mom might say to me if I got into some minor mischief. 

Nowadays, this has been purged from the vocabulary. The expression, that is, not the deed. Nobody would ever say such a violent thing anymore, yet the deed, rare back then, is now commonplace. Go figure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When i was a kid, people would routinely say &#8220;I&#8217;ll kill you for that,&#8221; such as my mom might say to me if I got into some minor mischief. </p>
<p>Nowadays, this has been purged from the vocabulary. The expression, that is, not the deed. Nobody would ever say such a violent thing anymore, yet the deed, rare back then, is now commonplace. Go figure.</p>
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		<title>By: K8 the GR8 &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Amore Vincit Omnia</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2008/08/cripples-retards-and-politically-correct-euphemism/comment-page-2#comment-60983</link>
		<dc:creator>K8 the GR8 &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Amore Vincit Omnia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] out my brother is broken, and either tease me unmercifully or tell me I&#8217;m the sister of a retard.Ã‚Â  I never had to face something that tough as a [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The condensed (and much smarter) version of &#8220;Tropic Thunder: the post-mortem&#8221; &#8212; Disposable</title>
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		<dc:creator>The condensed (and much smarter) version of &#8220;Tropic Thunder: the post-mortem&#8221; &#8212; Disposable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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