MOMVERSATION MONDAY!!: The "R" Word: Is It Ever OK to Use It?

Good Morning! Here's another riviting discussion on Momversation Monday!

Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom bring up the sensitive question of do we use the "R" word and is it OK to use it?

The "R" word for those who don't know is retard.
Lets break down the word shall we?

Brogdon watched an interview with Sarah Palin, who has a child with Down syndrome, say that she was mad at a White House Chief of Staff for using the word retard to describe Liberals who did not like how the government was handling the health care debate as "Effing retards". But then Palin went on to say it was OK for Rush Limbaugh to use it because it was satire.

I, like Dana Loesch of Mamalogues, listened and I also watched the Sarah Palin clip, and there was a difference in which the word was being used because as Dana said Limbaugh was using it to highlight politcal incorrectness in the aftermath of what was said by the Chief of Staff, who used it to attack a group of people who did not like what they were doing in the White House. Unfortunately in Palin's interview her point was lost somewhere in between trying to get the Chief of Staff fired and her promotion of her Facebook page.

As Alice Bradley of Finslippy pointed out, I wouldn't want to say that out in public because I would be scared to use the word in complete fear of insulting someone.

I believe in this day and age where we have so many words to choose from, we can officially say that satire or not, the use of the "R" word is no longer necessary.
Do we really need to be using this word?

Of course we all used the word at one point or another, I'll admit that I have, but looking back to my conversation on which I used it, I realized it didn't add to the point I was making. As a matter of fact, it decreased my point because the only thing that was most predominant in my statement was the use of the word and how uneducated I sounded in that moment.

What about you?
How do you feel about the use of the "R" word?