@SFdirewolf: @ACLU @DisabilityMap @NCDJ_ASU. Hey ACLU, your blog’s headline uses the term ‘mentally retarded.’ Language matters https://ncdj.org/style-guide/
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By Julia Epstein, November 24, 2009
[...] On November 17, 2009, Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Michael Enzi (R-WY) introduced a bill they named Rosa’s Law that would replace the phrase “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in all Federal policy references.
This development follows the protests around the word “retard” repeated in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder and a campaign by the Special Olympics to get people to stop using “the R-word.”