[Vision2020] PC is the way to be!

[Donovan Arnold]

Tim,
  
 You are so correct. I will not make that error again,  thanks to you. From now on, I will refer to you as a child with a  disability. And it is so much more important that we focus on calling  children with a disability as "children with a disability" rather than"  disabled child" instead of focusing on the larger issue that a person  running for public office didn't want them being next door to him. I  mean really, which is the larger offense to these children? 
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA

TIM RIGSBY <tim.rigsby at hotmail.com> wrote:  Visionistas:

Just a side conversation here about a dialogue Donovan and Dan the Man 
Carscellan are having.  For some reason Donovan continues to label 
individuals with disabilities as being "disabled children," when in fact the 
PC way to provide a label to this special population would be children with 
disabilities.  I am surprised that someone such as Donovan with his 
extensive background in Special Education and his continued advocacy for 
special populations would be so inconsiderate when making a reference to 
children with disabilities.  This is not the first time Donovan has used 
such an inconsiderate phrase to describe a special population, but I do hope 
it is the last.

Donovan, I am offended that you would label a child with a disability before 
actually making reference to them as being children.  Would you like it if 
people started calling you Lazy Donovan as opposed to Donovan may be lazy?  
My hope is that you will treat individuals with disabilities with more 
respect than what you have shown here in a semi-public forum.

Tim

Once again, I must copyright these emails as Dale insists on taking them out 
of context and posting them on his blahg without the prior consent of the 
author.  When will he ever learn?  What a dumb fuck.  Copyrighted 2006!!!

" 'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of the 
key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody 
who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted 
and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of 
the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public 
property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or 
locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and 
twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it 
matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will 
wish you had voted." - Hunter S. Thompson

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