The Reason Behind The R Word Pledge

By Thomas Cook


The R word is a phrase that stands for the word retard, or other words that may originate from it, say retards or retarded. The word has been widely discredited and campaigned against, for demeaning reasons. This led to a campaign known as Spread the word to end the word advocacy, which was a national event, whose aim was to depolarize and seize the using of the hostile words, to citizens of the United States. Henceforth, the R word pledge has won massive awareness and influence, in the States.

The key stakes in the pledges, have always insinuated that the use of these words should be as much as possible, avoided by all sane minds. They spearhead the usages of dignifying and respectful words when holding conversations and in colloquial sentiments. They have warned that using some of these terms may have adverse effects to the intended persons, attributing that it is not the wish of anyone to be insane or have intellectual issues, but is fate. Therefore, they should not be discriminated, both in practical situations, and in speeches.

These campaigns sprang from a conventional summit that was held on Special Global Youths Activation, which was held on the 31st of March in 2009. Its primary agenda or mission was, and until today, to stop situations whereby people use rather rude words when referring to a certain group of people. The program is usually in recognition of the reality that these affected folks have rights to mingle with the community, and their mental standards should not prevent them from sharing their personal interests and experiences with the rest of the world.

Therefore causal references, they claim, to words like retard or even retarded, are esteem killers, and make the person with the intellectual deficiencies feel like they are more or less, human. This is seen to interfere with their psychology, which may in the end result in them not respecting themselves, and they view themselves as failures.

The people advocating for the mission summarized it as the R word, to generally refer to other terms and phrases that are crafted to have the end meanings that are unacceptable to the society, and do not uphold ethics. One of the most notorious ones is nigger.

The campaign, intriguingly, was initiated by people of all intellectual affiliations, both the sane and those with poverty of intellect. They were brought together by the basic reason that they had common interests and self-drive to stand firm for the abolishment of defamatory names for instance retard, nigger and other cruel terminologies. They hoped that the society, and the globe at large, would eventually a more comfortable and acceptable place to be lived by one and all, regardless of the malfunctions, upstairs.

National celebrations are held every 31st March of each year. The campaign is increasingly gaining popularity to huge flocks of people. For the record, White House Chief Staff was forced by the youth, to make an apology for his regrettable utterance of the term retards.

This sent an overwhelming message on how the campaign was impartially aggressive, even against the untouchables. Conclusively, the campaigns have had intense impact on people. Their whims have been rendered relevant, and are considered to be progressive-oriented.




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