Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
Don't know if any of you saw the last episode of Family Guy, but there was this actually witty story line of Chris dating a real bitchy down's syndrome girl at his school. As Family Guy goes this was actually a quite respectful treatment of the group at hand, with Chris coming off as the underdog even here.

But as we all know, a certain previous governor of Alaska has a 'special' child, which means that nobody in the United States of America is allowed to say anything about a downs syndrome person without getting previous approval by her.

I started off liking her, actually, but she's running out of credit real fast.

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IIRC they actually had the downs character say her mother is the ex-governor of Alaska. That was probably taking it too far.

When did you like Sarah Palin?

Quote Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust View Post
She also went after the word Retard as verbal abuse because of her son. and people reporting on it suddenly started calling it "The R Word". Sarah Palin forgets that when you place people with Downs off-limit for making jokes, that's the moment you are alienating them. When you treat them just like every other person you don't.
Retard has been increasingly out of bounds for a while. It pre-dates Palin by half a decade. Handi-capped was the first PC attempt I think. Then mentally challenged. And I think that one's on the outs too. Special's no good either. I'm not exactly sure what is appropriate these days....