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user-inactivated  ·  3760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "That's Retarded." Words and Offense.

I disagree. Plenty of people with mental handicaps have been beaten and murdered for it.

Just a few sources.

It doesn't get reported as much as violence against gays (a group I fall into) and blacks, (cynical moment: probably because it's not as 'sexy' for news media), but it's definitely there, and it always has been - all throughout history. Don't forget the Nazi practice throughout their reign of executing those with mental handicaps and birth defects (Nazi Germany wasn't anywhere near or the last nation to do this, but it's probably the most well known).

It does belong in the same category, I think.