Comments on: Columnist: Rahm Emanuel ‘picked on the wrong people’ http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/04/columnist-emanuel-27688/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mandy http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/04/columnist-emanuel-27688/comment-page-1/#comment-5589 Mandy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:22:02 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=27688#comment-5589 Ben York, you don't know anything about toddlers with Down's, do you? This isn't really the right forum for you to lecture people about the "needs" of kids with Down's. We're family here. We know that toddlers with Down's need to be visible. They need to be stimulated, and a mother who proudly flaunts her child encourages other parents not to be ashamed of theirs, not to isolate them, not to indulge society's prejudice against the disabled by keeping them discreetly tucked out of view. Dennis Miller and Rush Limbaugh are jerks. But we knew that. What we didn't know was that Rahm Emmanuel was too. Ben York, you don’t know anything about toddlers with Down’s, do you? This isn’t really the right forum for you to lecture people about the “needs” of kids with Down’s. We’re family here. We know that toddlers with Down’s need to be visible. They need to be stimulated, and a mother who proudly flaunts her child encourages other parents not to be ashamed of theirs, not to isolate them, not to indulge society’s prejudice against the disabled by keeping them discreetly tucked out of view.

Dennis Miller and Rush Limbaugh are jerks. But we knew that. What we didn’t know was that Rahm Emmanuel was too.

]]> By: Ben York http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/04/columnist-emanuel-27688/comment-page-1/#comment-5581 Ben York Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:39:53 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=27688#comment-5581 Who will tell Sarah Palin, that using/exploiting her disabled child for political events, money raising, and book signing is not only inappropriate, it is very abusive. Any person who work with disabled individual in non-profit or State agency will be accused of mistreatment and abuse of disabled child in this situation. Charges will be filed and staff will loose a job. Imagine any human being traveling from Alaska to Arizona when temperature difference is extremely difficult to deal with for any person without Palin's disabled son's health condition. What do we know about his medication needs and their administration in different states? Where are all disabled people advocates and their effort to save this child. Don't they see this child attached to Mrs. Palin's waist like a rag doll and drugged across the country from hotel to hotel, in cars, buses airplanes and other transporters? Mrs. Palin subjected her disabled child to media exploitation,ridicule, inappropriate language and source of jokes. Mr. Dennis Miller made good money and his entire career to call people like Palin's son- retards. Other entertainers followed his footsteps. The prominent talk show host Rush Limbaugh included this word in his vocabulary to practice his hate language. His listeners with delight call Rush and repeat word for word this disgusting slur. Even more importantly, the majority of conservative politicians who take directions from Rush for years don't see anything wrong with his slur. The question is, are we going to ask them to make the law preventing others to call people " the retard"? Ben York Who will tell Sarah Palin, that using/exploiting her disabled child for political events, money raising, and book signing is not only inappropriate, it is very abusive. Any person who work with disabled individual in non-profit or State agency will be accused of mistreatment and abuse of disabled child in this situation. Charges will be filed and staff will loose a job. Imagine any human being traveling from Alaska to Arizona when temperature difference is extremely difficult to deal with for any person without Palin’s disabled son’s health condition. What do we know about his medication needs and their administration in different states?

Where are all disabled people advocates and their effort to save this child. Don’t they see this child attached to Mrs. Palin’s waist like a rag doll and drugged across the country from hotel to hotel, in cars, buses airplanes and other transporters?

Mrs. Palin subjected her disabled child to media exploitation,ridicule, inappropriate language and source of jokes.

Mr. Dennis Miller made good money and his entire career to call people like Palin’s son- retards. Other entertainers followed his footsteps. The prominent talk show host Rush Limbaugh included this word in his vocabulary to practice his hate language. His listeners with delight call Rush and repeat word for word this disgusting slur.

Even more importantly, the majority of conservative politicians who take directions from Rush for years don’t see anything wrong with his slur. The question is, are we going to ask them to make the law preventing others to call people ” the retard”?

Ben York

]]> By: jawanda http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/04/columnist-emanuel-27688/comment-page-1/#comment-5580 jawanda Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:17:30 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=27688#comment-5580 My comment today is quite simple. Yes we need to focus on the big issues. But guess what? This is the opportunity to do that. It is in the limelight so make it work for people with cognitive disabilities Invite Rahm and company to a few events. Have them tape some PSA's. Go for it... My comment today is quite simple. Yes we need to focus on the big issues. But guess what? This is the opportunity to do that. It is in the limelight so make it work for people with cognitive disabilities Invite Rahm and company to a few events. Have them tape some PSA’s. Go for it…

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