Early voting in small town Indisna..
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Long gone. Harris pulled out money and moved it to VA. The only thing you need to worry about is Trump picking off a rust belt state. Everything else is locked up.
The only thing we're waiting on now is for a Rust Belt state to fall. Or a surprise somewhere else. They're getting nervous about NH.
Why is that?
I like knowing who (or maybe what) I'm dealing with instead of having that kind of thing pushed in the darkness.
It's been a rule here since before I showed up. I got bit by it early on myself. The policy is in place at the request of @Noodle, who has a Downs son and has educated us as to how the disability community views "retard" and the variants as slurs. Think of it like if n----r was used repeatedly and @MrBing told us "Hey guys, that's not cool."
Thank you. And to be clear, I am not thin skinned or PC. Rather, some time ago I explained the effect the word has on people with developmental or intellectual disabilities. A word that was originally used to describe individuals who have a developmental disability has morphed into a catchall word for belittling another person or their ideas, declaring something that was said as being stupid, etc. It's used as an insult against someone who does not have a developmental disability, which makes it even more biting for those who actually do have an developmental/intellectual disability. Thankfully, it's use is decreasing.
Regrettably, however, on several occasions someone in a work setting has used it in my presence to refer to something they thought was stupid, etc. Non of them knew about my son (though one found out shortly after when a colleague told them). In all of those instances, my impression of that person dropper precipitously. (One of them did apologize to me directly, in tears, after a colleague informed them about my son.)
Personal attacks are one thing. Often they're deserved. But a personal attack that impacts another person who was not the intended target is flat wrong.
Bottom line is Mas knows the rule, posted using the term anyway, and then tried to make an issue about it getting deleted. Fvck him.
Unless the 'victim'you describe frequents this board, there is ZERO chance that individual could be injured by the use of the colloquial or derivative of the colloquial term for arrested development.
As Danc pointed out, it is little more than additional woke bullshit.
As for you Mark...pfffft!
