Snowflake Syndrome: 2-11 NY Giants (NFL football) cut Pro Bowler Janoris Jenkins for using the so-called 'R-word'

MohammedAA wrote:

I use the word retarded often in my line of work. I am a medical doctor, and it is a generally accepted medical term for Developmental delays.

Jesus. Really??

You must be a completely out-of-date doctor, and/or practicing in a backwater somewhere.

It is absolutely not "generally accepted" by anyone who finished medical school in the last 30 years.

the430miler wrote:

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What's the R word?

Redskin

That would be great for us oklahoma but the N F L is too "ist" for that. Hattak mvt lusa.

Avocado's Number wrote:

you are behind the times wrote:

I haven't done a survey but I would be quite surprised if there were more than a handful of chapters using "association for retarded citizens" as their name at this point. Can you link to your local chapter?

Yes, I can, but I'd rather not.

So, just out of curiosity and because I apparently have too much time on my hands, I went through The Arc website last night and looked at the names of the chapters in all fifty states. There are none listed that had the name retarded in their name. The majority of the chapters were listed as "The Arc of Westchester County" or similar. In these cases the name reflected the national name as not being an acronym. Some chapters had names that did not reflect the national organization at all. In a few cases the name of the local chapter had a name that suggested that possibly they did still use the older acronym and the national organization just decided to list it by initials. I clicked through some of these, but I can't claim to have clicked through all of them. All of the ones I clicked through to the local website did not have the word "retarded" as part of their name. So, well I cannot definitively rule it out, I cannot find any local chapters still using the word. I think perhaps your lengthy dissociation from your local organization means you have likely just lost touch as I am sure there were chapters that were slower to rename themselves, but they all appear to have done so by now.

Now he got signed by a 11-3 team. Power move if you ask me.

Jenkins’ official designation was waived-injured because of his minor ankle injury during a Week 14 loss to Philadelphia that dropped the Giants to 2-11.

Now Jenkins joins a Saints team that already has clinched the NFC South for a third straight season and is in the hunt for one of the top two playoff seeds in the NFC heading into its final two regular-season games.

The 31-year-old Jenkins has started all but two games in which he has played during his eight-year career. He made the Pro Bowl in 2016, the year he signed a five-year, $62 million deal with New York.

Is it acceptable to use the word "retardant" as in, my kids pajamas would have caugth on fire if it weren't for the flame retardant?

How about if I talk about the growth of fruit and nut orchards as having been retarded due to cutbacks in water deliveries during the previous drought?

What about the term l!btard that I see thrown around haphazardly on this site?

3 day old buffet wrote:

I've never heard the word retard used to insult someone who is actually developmentally delayed. I've only seen it used to describe someone who is not, but does something stupid.

+1

This thread is retarded.