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Including Urmila. #willsindiafashionweek
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Poor Gurdeep. I can't even imagine how awful that must have been, and must still be. #sikhriots
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10/28/09
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is retarded no longer the correct term for someone with mental retardation/Down Syndrome? I wouldn't be offended by a mother calling her baby retarded if he or she was....am I wrong or missing something? #homecominggangrape
10/29/09
Now people tend to use the general term developmentally delayed and then the more specific diagnosis like Autistic or Down's Syndrome.
Yes calling your child "retarded" would in most circles be considered insulting. If you called your child "retarded" in a room full of other parents of kids with developmental disabilities including but not limited to Down's you'd better be prepared to run, because they would tear you apart.
As someone who used to work with special needs kids I would be horrified to hear a parent say that about their child. I wouldn't be shocked though, often parents and siblings can be the cruelest to their family members with a developmental disabilitiy. #homecominggangrape
10/29/09
I'm no fan of Palin (can't stand her!), but Levi was out of line. #homecominggangrape
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I now feel sorry for that baby, if this is true. However, on a gut level, I suspect Levi fluffed up his story.
Yet, generally, if you aren't raising a disabled child, it's very difficult to judge the parents. Levi should lay off the judgemental media-pandering. If he's really that concerned about the "R" word, he should take it up privately with the family. #homecominggangrape
10/28/09
I do not know what people imagine 285 pounds to be, but I don't think it is what you think it is. #homecominggangrape
10/28/09
ETA: I don't mean that to sound disparaging at all. My top weight was not that much less than this, about 260. Were there other people who were in better shape than me? Sure, but I was by no means paralyzed.
10/28/09
Ah, Palin. Is it wrong that I feel karma has a hand in this eternal bitchfight between La Palin and this guy who couldn't seem to care less about her retaliation? The only way she could upset him is to ban guns in Alaska or eradicate all hunting. He's pretty immune.
It's like the cosmos scoped around for a fitting adversary for her, and then went "hm, teenage dropout she pulled into the spotlight with nothing to lose? About right." #homecominggangrape
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I just cant believe we are discussing the idea of calling people who either stood by, watched, photographed or participated in a gang rape of this caliber. They are monsters, and while yes they might have been ordinary people yesterday, in my mind you lose that card when you are able stand and watch while a near critical sexual assault where a CHILD was penetrated in her mouth, her anus, and her vagina, repeatedly, by more than 5 people? If half of the participants stopped, yelled, ran to get help, they might have been beaten, ostracized, but they would not BE RAPISTS. This was obviously, to a degree a pre-meditated act. And therefore, I can agree that pack mentality took over for some of them, but for others we can blame society, or some other thing, but what it is was someone was so rapt with bringing torture, pain, disgrace, and a level of sexual assault onto one person. They chose to do this. And until any of them actually spend some time, or hell the rest of their lives in jail, there will be no societal change. #homecominggangrape
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Also, when someone is running a stop sign and you see them, don't go anyway just to "show them that they can't get away with it." #homecominggangrape