Marine Tells His Instructor He"s Offended When He Uses The R-Word

Everyday people are being offended all the time. It seems everyone loves to be offended and it doesn’t take much to get them there. To be more specific, there are words that people use either to insult or hurt someone and sometimes those same words are thrown around as playful teasing. One of these words is the “r-word.” The word used to insult someone when they are being “dumb.” You know the word I’m talking about. The word that was used to describe people with mental delays or disabilities. A marine was in boot camp when he was called the r-word and he chose to stand up not only for himself, but for those who do have mental disabilities.

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“I’m not here to criticize the United States Marine Corps on how they train new recruits.”

“They’ve been doing it for more than 200 years so they must know what they’re doing.”

“My intention is to give an account of how standing up for people with intellectual disabilities is possible even to arguably the scariest individuals you can imagine.”

“Here’s what happened…”

“During a period of instruction on Marine Corps values, I answered a question that, while technically correct, wasn’t the answer my heavy (a Marine term for the drill instructor tasked with making life extremely difficult) was looking for.”

“‘You must be a [R-word], Mitchell."”