OK, I’m going to get on my soapbox today. I’m not sure if all of you will agree with this, but this is something I feel very strongly about.

I was responding a post made by a PP supporter, yesterday, where the person used the L word in the post. The L word is just like the R word with the first three letters being LIB.

I said that the word was in very poor taste and given personal circumstances, I found it very offensive to use that word in any context. The person defended the use of the word by saying that it’s in the dictionary and is used in a political sense. Well, the R word is in the dictionary too. I can go explain why I find the word so offensive but the following is a quote from dictionary.com which pretty well sums up my feelings on this.

“The word libtard is intended to insult someone by linking the person’s liberal political views and their expression to an intellectual or developmental disability: as the etymology indicates, the last part of this compound comes from retard, a profoundly demeaning term for a person with such a disability. Reliance on the disparagement of people with disabilities makes libtard, and its much less frequent companion insult conservatard, doubly offensive.”

It is a disgusting word, period. If you want to use the word, moron or asshole or whatever I can live with that. But this word has a definite relationship to the R word. Up until the 1960s the R word was a common term even used by medical professionals. That was 60 years ago. The N-word was a common term to back then.

If you have any sense at all, stop using the freaking word. If you don’t have any sense, you’re the one who looks like a fool.

That’s all I have for today.