35 Search Results for ""make your own r-word ad""

• In the Partners Club

  • From: desente
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    In the Partners Club we talk about the "R" word campaign. When you say the "R" word it makes people feel bad and it hurts my feelings and I don't want to hear you guys say it. Instead, you can call me a leader, a hero, or a human being, but please don'c call me the "R" word.

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  • 2 months ago
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• hbpressure

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• Special Olympics Poem

  • From: Lanny_Poffo
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    I wrote this poem for SPECIAL OLYMPICS. I didn't need the R word or anything else that was less than uplifting. I hope you like it!

  • 4 months ago
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• intra cometions day 2 special

  • From: swimmerjasmine
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    the competions which i organise by my self

  • 4 months ago
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• intra cometions day 2 special

  • From: swimmerjasmine
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    the competions which i organise by my self

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• intra cometions day 2 special

  • From: swimmerjasmine
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    the competions which i organise by my self

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• intra cometions day 2 special

  • From: swimmerjasmine
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    the competions which i organise by my self

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• intra cometions day 2 special

  • From: swimmerjasmine
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    the competions which i organise by my self

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• Stop the R word

  • From: nomorerword
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    I am against the fact that people thinks its ok to say the word retarded whether thier saying about themselves or toward someone else. People need to stop saying the word retarded and show more respect to people with a disability because its disrespectful.

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• nomorerword

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• brownville

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• maureen1743

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• Academy of Notre Dame Pledges

  • From: NDACommunication
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    The Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Villanova, Pa., participated in the national  "Spread the Word to End the Word" campaign to raise awareness on the misuse of the word, "retarded."  Students wore special shirts, and a pledge banner was available to sign in the cafeteria. 

  • 7 months ago
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• The New R-Word

  • From: bridget
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    Students at Leslie Middle School can think of lots of words to call someone with an intellectual disability.... RETARD is NOT one of them! 

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• The R Word

  • From: Crystal
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    I wrote this post on my own personal blog today, and wanted to share it with this community. I usually write about topics related to self-improvement and college life, but I thought that this issue was important to address.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    Special Olympics Ad

    This Special Olympics ad highlights the emotional charge that the “r-word” carries (www.r-word.org). The campaign to eliminate the use of the word retarded rides on the coattails of Obama’s highly publicized derogatory comment about the Special Olympics.

    I’m not trying to be morally superior. Today I was at Castro Street getting dinner with a friend, when I made a comment about how “retarded” I was. I quickly realized my mistake, apologized, and replaced it with how “stupid” I was. Everyone is prone to it, it’s been so much a taken for granted part of our casual lexicon, but the point is that once we become aware of our choice of words, we can eliminate and replace harmful words in our vocabulary.

    I didn’t realize that language could be so powerful. Like many, I thought that words were just meaningless, and that there could not possibly exist the hyperbolic attitude so vilified by disability advocates. However, while reading the forum I stumbled upon a very insensitive comment on the r-word website that exemplifies the exact kind of attitude that they want to combat. I would like to excerpt a bit here:

    ..those who fight so hard to have people stop saying [retard] is, well, … retarded..Don’t you think we could use our time and resoucres to attack a larger issue in this country. I mean what about the economy? you talk about intolerance, we just voted in a black president for christ’s sake, what planet are you from to say we need more tolerance for people who are “mentally challenged, or metally reatarded”, use your time and resources to counquer something more productive instead of fighting something that doesn’t exist, you freakin retards… (read the whole thing here)

    I’m sorry cptwinks, but your comment exactly brings sympathy for the cause you berate so much for its “vacuity” and “insignificance”. I wasn’t fully a supporter of the r-word campaign until I read your comment, because now I realize what kind of bigotry and insensitivity pervades our society. The first thing I did was to look up the denotation of “retard”:

    retard verb |riˈtärd| [ trans. ]
    delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment : his progress was retarded by his limp.
    noun |ˈrēˌtärd| |ˈritɑrd| |rəˈtɑrd| |riˈtɑrd| |ˈriːtɑːd| offensive
    a mentally handicapped person (often used as a general term of abuse).

    Even my apple dictionary is more sensitive than cptwinks. For a moment, let’s grant the dictionary definition and examine what we usually mean when we say “retarded”.

    He’s so retarded: We don’t actually mean that he is mentally handicapped; when’s the last time you heard someone comment about a student with learning disabilities, “This is my student Peter, he’s so retarded”.  What we mean is that he is as stupid as someone who is mentally handicapped, and we mean that in the most derogatory sense. The implication is that the only characteristic of mentally handicapped individuals is their stupidity, and we mean that in the most derogatory sense.

    I had a neighbor who was born with Down syndrome. He was one of the sweetest guys I ever met. When the phrase, “He’s so retarded” will come to mean “He’s so sweet” is when I will agree with cptwinks in affirming that the word “retarded” is inconsequential.

    We do not accept the use of the phrase, “that’s so gay”, so why do we tolerate “retarded”? We respect the feelings of gay people, but not the feelings of the mentally handicapped. What’s even worse is that, our use of the word “gay” is usually deliberate; we are aware of our offensiveness and deploy our labels strategically. When we say “retarded”, we don’t even realize the impact we have. That the mentally handicapped are not even a group of people whom we consider to be worth insulting speaks volumes towards showing how much we actually do care about their feelings. To not even be a recognized group that we include in our sphere of decency; that’s the biggest blow of all.

    Finally, although this might be a bit of a tangent, I want to address another false assumption in cptwinks’ comment. To claim that because we elected a black president means that we’ve somehow managed to rid the entire country of prejudice (not even just racial prejudice) is just ridiculous. I’m sure that if Obama knew that him winning the election meant forfeiting the fight against prejudice and declaring it won, he would have given up the presidency. To rubber stamp all battles against intolerance and insensitivity as useless because of one victory is completely counter to the entire progressive ideal. Instead of facilitating progress, victories insert a huge road block. To me, this is just an excuse for laziness and a justification for tolerance of our intolerance.

    If you care about this issue, there are a few ways you can help:

    1. Start catching yourself whenever you say “retarded”, and do it out loud so your friends hear you too.
    2. Start correcting your friends whenever you hear them say it. They might find you annoying at first, but they will soon start to catch themselves.
    3. check out www.r-word.org and sign up for their community if you’re interested!

    If you're interested in reading the rest of the blog, the url is: www.thetroublewithcrystal.com

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• Spread The Word To End The Wor

  • From: noahgray
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• Spread The Word To End The Wor

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• Hollywood does it Again

  • From: ryaneades
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    UPDATED SEPTEMBER 22

     

    UPDATED MARCH 13

     

    It looks like Hollywood has done it again.  I'd like to bring this article from the March 11 edition of the Chicago Tribune to your attention.

     

    The article is a Q&A interview with actor Craig Robinson (Daryl, the warehouse guy in "The Office") who has a supporting role in the upcoming movie "Miss March" which comes out in theatres on Friday March 13.

     

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    Q - In the script, the word "retard" is used over and over. The comedy "Tropic Thunder" received a great deal of criticism for using the same word. Was there any concern over how this might be received?

     

    A - I've heard nothing. There could very well be something, but I haven't heard anything. We shot it probably the same time as ["Tropic Thunder"]. I wasn't in the editing room. You'll have to talk to the guys who made those decisions.

     

    Q - But, as a comedian, is that just a toxic word now?

     

    A - It does seem to be. You can see it from a parent's point of view. But the way they use it in the movie is funny. It's silly. It's not going out to hurt anybody. It's definitely not coming from an evil place; it's just coming from the way people talk.

     

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    Please note, I have not seen the movie, but Special Olympics has requested a viewing copy of the movie.

     

    What I do know is that the movie was written and directed by Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore, who both star in the movie.  Cregger and Moore were born in 1980 and 1981 so their script is a perfect example of the pervasiveness of the R-word within that generation's vernacular and shows just how high the lack of awareness is to the hurt the R-word causes millions of people.

     

    None of the movie trailers or promotional materials use the R-word.  My educated guess is there is a lot of dialogue along the lines of "You're so retarded" or "That's so retarded" and so forth. 

     

    The bottom line is, the R-word was used enough in the movie to prompt a reporter from the Chicago Tribune to make 2 of his 11 questions published in his article, about the R-word.

     

    I am encouraging you to do four things:

     

    1) Not spend your money to see the movie.

     

    2) Let the writers and production company and distribution company know how you feel about the R-word being in the movie by calling them, emailing them or writing to them.

     

    3) Go to www.r-word.org and make your pledge to not use the R-word.  If you've already pledged, Spread the Word to your friends and family!

     

    4) Don't have the time to write your own letter?  Copy the text below and post it as a comment on my blog below and I will send the chain of comments via email myself,

     

    "I will not spend money to watch this movie and I will do everything in my power to convince my family and friends not to spend money to watch this movie.  It is time for Hollywood to stop using the word 'retard.'"  

     

    MARCH 13 UPDATE:

     

    I came across an article on FilmCritic.com this morning that gives us more details on one way the R-word was used in this movie (I added the bold to the text).  It's not pretty:

     

    The best friend is Eugene (Cregger), a high-school student who doubles as an abstinence lecturer. Along with his devout girlfriend Cindi (Raquel Alessi), Eugene recounts how his brother had sex and then had "retard babies" that later went on to burn down his house and kill his mother. The tirade is accompanied by projections of Syphilis infected no-no areas.

     

     

    Please see below for how you can get ahold of the relevant people and let your voices be heard!

     

    Zach Cregger:

     

    Publicist is Jeffrey Chassen of Baker Winokur Ryder Public Relations (BWR)

    Mailing Address:

    World Wide Tower

    825 8th Ave

    New York, NY 10019

    Phone: 2129013922

    Email: jeffrey.chassen@bwr-ny.com

     

     

    Trevor Moore:

     

    Manager is Kara Walker of Generate

    Mailing Address is:

    1545 26th St.

    Ste. 200

    Santa Monica, CA 90404

    Phone: 310-255-0460

    Email: kara@generatela.com

    http://www.generateLA.com/

     

    Distribution Company is Fox Searchlight:

     

    Peter Rice, President

    Fox Searchlight Pictures

    10201 W. Pico Blvd.

    Bldg. 38

    Los Angeles, CA 90035

    Phone: 310-369-4402

    http://www.foxsearchlight.com/

     

    Production Company is Jacobson Productions:

     

    Tom Jacobson

    Jacobson Productions

    280 S. Beverly Drive

    Suite 316

    Beverly Hills, CA 90212

    Phone: 310-550-9319

     

     

    SEPTEMBER 22 UPDATE:

     

    First, my apologies for not updating this blog post before now as I should have done about 6 weeks ago, as various circumstances just didn't allow that to happen, but I digress.  I'd like to offer a big THANK YOU to everyone who spoke out about this movie and to FOX because as this review of the "Miss March" DVD reports, each instance of the word "retard" was removed from this movie!  Success!  I encourage you to read the comments below the article I linked to above as they are pretty typical of most conversations about the R-word nowadays.  The encouraging part about that is that a year ago during the "Tropic Thunder" protests comments in various articles were about 95 to 98 percent against our efforts.  As you can see that ratio in this particular article's comments is much closer to a 60-40 split.  I feel like that's significant progress toward shifting a societal paradigm, an incredibly encouraging development. 

     

    Additionally, I'd like to share a picture of an ad that our Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign put in the August 11 edition of Variety magazine to thank FOX for their support.  Enjoy!

     

    
    

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• "Be Kind, Be Tolerant" Animati

  • From: 2009_Games_Fans
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    This is a R-word animation produced by Phi Tran in Arlington, Virginia.  Phi is a phenomenal producer of Flash animation, and was asked to produce an R-word video for Special Olympics.  His clever idea involves a triangle who sees the R-word as graffiti on a bathroom wall.

  • 9 months ago
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