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By: Nightfox to Accession on Fri Sep 20 2024 04:41 pm
DW>>> I guess it depends on how you take it. At the time, I took it as
DW>>> Trump being hard on that particular person and not as a blanket
DW>>> implication of disabled persons as a whole. However, I can easily
DW>>> see where others would take it that way, and I didn't think it was
DW>>> appropriate.
Ac>> While it is (much moreso now), and definitely was inappropriate..
Ac>> I'd like to know how many people arguing about this as a reason not
Ac>> to vote for him, have ever called a friend of theirs a retard, or a
Ac>> short bus riding window licker, or slow, etc. Back in the 80s-90s
Ac>> you heard that crap every day, as it was very common.
Ac>> I think it has to do with people's skin getting much thinner over
Ac>> the
Ac>> years. People's feelings get hurt entirely too easily nowadays.
Ni> I can't say I remember if I've ever called someone that, but generally I
Ni> avoid using that word. And even so, and even if peoples' skin is thinner
Ni> these days, I don't think that justifies mocking a disabled person, or
Ni> makes it appropriate in any way. IMO it's a piece of shit thing to do, and
Ni> doesn't make me feel good about voting for him.
I guess no ones perfect, you should hear the stories Kamala staffers tell about
how she treats them.
Also Hillary has done far worse.
... Those who live by the sword... kill those who don't.
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