littlebig wrote:
I've a close family member who's spastic and although she's a gem, it's a big burden on the family to care for her and she herself has a lot of health issues to deal with. In short it's one of those things in life that's very sad.
It's offensive to hear someone using some poor unfortunate's misery to use as an insult or to have a laugh.
To hear it used to describe Bosnian people, along with the refugee reference to their recent tragic history, is at best pig ignorant, and at worst a deeply offensive racial slur on Bosnians.
Sorry, nothing personal to any individual posters, but I have to speak out when I hear this kind of talk
Maybe I'm being irish here but it sounds like matt dillon in something about mary, when he says "I love those little retards".
Is spastic the pc term?