Just the very tribe that their children belong to, the tribe that we are fighting with all of our might to empower, to give the dignity they deserve by working to ban words like “retard”. The only people that this will hurt if it is not ratified are people with disabilities. Last year I was banging my head against the desk so hard it was shaking because it’s incomprehensible to me that so many parents of kids with disabilities are AGAINST this when it makes no sense to be. It’s by the United Nations, JUDY HEUMANN is behind it. It was such a seeming no-brainer – OF COURSE WE NEED THIS RATIFIED! You know, thanks to a ton of misinformation about the CRPD, it was voted down last year for ratification. I’m just tired.Īnd through the outcry of “celebutard” rippling through the Down syndrome community, I can’t help but shake my head and wonder at the LACK of outcry and care about the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities.
I’m tired of people saying this is okay, I’m tired of people saying that we are “too PC”, I’m tired of it all. I am tired of seeing this crap, I’m tired of feeling the need to stand on my little tiny pulpit and preach it. It’s most hurtful to those that have been called “retarded” as in a once-bona fide medical way – but which has been replaced by “Intellectual Disability”.Īnd this is the point in which I see things like “celebutard” floating around facebook and I just feel tired.
Because it’s really like saying, “celebuspic” or “celebanig” -or even “celebakike” – I can’t give more examples because my knowledge of racial slurs is pretty slim.īut a slur is a slur and “celebutard” is a pretty big one. Only it’s not and you, my trusty friend, knows it isn’t. How funny, how ironic! How awfully clever, tongue-in-cheek! You probably already heard, but that bastion of glam fun, my ultimate wonderland of merriment, Sephora, released a lipstick by Kat Von D called, yep, you guessed it, “Celebutard”