jrabbit/"r-word" rant

## "r-word" rant
I find it appalling that so many of you support a cause to control language. Language is the basis of all ideas. To limit speech by force or by coercion is not the hallmark of a tolerant, accepting community.
No one should be laughing at the mentally disabled, challenged or handicapped. This does not mean that the word they so strive to "end" must die. The nature of our language is a malleable one, we do not place the basis of American English in a single text. We form our language as a culture.
What Special Olypmics would like to achieve is the fundamental change in our society that celebrates tolerance and difference. They do not want the control of language to be in the hands of special interests.
Groups can recycle words by changing their connotation and denotation. Both the Hip Hop culture and the LGBT culture have re-appropriated various slurs targeted at them historically.
We as a society, we cannot resign ourselves away from control of our language. Language must be controlled by the people for the betterment of the people. Now go forward and use words in new ways to show our new ideals as a people when language is the most malleable since inception.
	I find it appalling that so many of you support a cause to control language. Language is the basis of all ideas. To limit speech by force or by coercion is not the hallmark of a tolerant, accepting community.
	No one should be laughing at the mentally disabled, challenged or handicapped. This does not mean that the word they so strive to "end" must die. The nature of our language is a malleable one, we do not place the basis of American English in a single text. We form our language as a culture.
	What Special Olypmics would like to achieve is the fundamental change in our society that celebrates tolerance and difference. They do not want the control of language to be in the hands of special interests.
	Groups can recycle words by changing their connotation and denotation. Both the Hip Hop culture and the LGBT culture have re-appropriated various slurs targeted at them historically.
	We as a society, we cannot resign ourselves away from control of our language. Language must be controlled by the people for the betterment of the people. Now go forward and use words in new ways to show our new ideals as a people when language is the most malleable since inception.