Words

In follow up to Thursday's class, I feel that this video was relevant to our discussion. I feel that all words, offensive or not, are just words. You have the right to say what you want. It's not right that one group is able to say a word and another is lashed out against. I feel that people need to get over it. People are trying to ban the word retarded because it's offensive to some disabled people. It's just a group of consonant and vowel sounds that form a word. I don't see what the big deal is. Don't pay attention to it then. What if a group of people are offended by the color purple? Are we going to ban the wearing of the color purple because it makes you upset. People are weak minded to get offended by words. Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me... what happened to that? Our founding fathers gave us the right to say what we want, no matter what the context of it is. You have the right not pay attention to as well.