open letter from man with down's

[nature boy]

makes me rethink my own choice of words.
http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.co ... n-coulter/

[se7entse7en]

I've been thinking about this sort of thing recently, like how we use words such as retard, gay, lame, dumb, f*kc, etc so freely that they've pretty much lost their meaning. Where do you draw the line? Would 'Special', as in 'Special Olympics', be considered offensive?

[[JT]]

Ann Coulter is only famous because she says things that irritate that f*** out of people

[nature boy]