Boston Herald

It’s the slur raising a ruckus from the White House to Hollywood, and today friends of the intellectually disabled will stage a pledge drive at the State House to ban the word “retard” in Massachusetts.

Soldiers of the anti-R-word movement will be collecting signatures from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Great Hall from those who “pledge and support the elimination of the derogatory use of the R-word from everyday speech and promote the acceptance and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.”…

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