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It's Different If They're Talking About You
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Wednesday was designated by some advocacy groups as a day of awareness for people to stop using what they call the "r-word." Here's the official site. I suppose that if you or someone in your family are developmentally disabled, there's nothing funny about it. But how quickly can you change people's perceptions? And are there contexts -- say, Robert Downey Jr.'s advice in "Tropic Thunder" -- in which the actual word is essential to the joke? (KMOX/St. Louis)
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