Rude Candy Machine
I went to a store in my hometown this weekend and seen that they had a candy machine that looked to be very old. On the front it stated that all proceeds of the machine go to a foundation for "mentally retarded individuals." I remember we talked about Rosa's Law in class changing that term to "individuals with intellectual disabilities." I thought that it would be best for them to take the sticker off of it or change the label to make it correct. I notice these kinds of things much more than I did before taking this class. Just a thought.
posted by Whitney Hutchinson @ 10:53 AM
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3 Comments:
I agree taking special education classes has made me notice a lot of things like that more often, I find myself correcting my friends or family if they say something incorrectly.
I'm not sure why, but I have never been happy with the word "retarded." It absolutely drives me insane and always has. I correct my friends and family every time they say it and most now know better than to say that word around me. My boyfriend and all of his friends have even stopped using that word.
Yea, the way people just use it to describe people that they do not like have destroyed that word. It just sounds insulting to me and it has for a while now.
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