Vertically Challenged People are Seeking to Ban the Word “Midget”, Comparing it to Racial Slurs

Posted on July 8th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Bolitics, News

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Small individuals are attempting to have the word” Midget” banned from broadcasting TV:

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV. The group Little People of America said today the word is just as offensive as racial slurs. The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” that the group said was demeaning. In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called “Jesse James and the Midgets.” The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry. Calls to the FCC and “Celebrity Apprentice” host Donald Trump were not immediately answered today. NBC Universal representatives didn’t immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office.

Yeah, The Donald is always starting up some mess. What do you all think? Should they ban the word “midget”?

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  • DRENK

    this isn’t news, it’s not even new, been hearing this fight for years now

  • mz.cee ♥

    LOL @Vertically Challenged

  • rome a.k.a. ( Mark Sandford should take a page from Sarah Palins’ book and get the hell on!!!!!)

    In the case of these two how bout we just call them …..let’s say ummmm……disgusting maybe?

    ughhhhhhh!! yuck! LOL!!!!!

  • http://facebook.com/ggoodei ggoodeimc

    WTF is wrong with this picture?

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  • Angee

    ^^^Yes they are!! Lol!!

  • uptowngirl

    WFT? This picture is wrong on so many levels.

  • Jade Silver (the truth shall set you free)

    It makes it hard to support any movement when a picture like that is put up to represent the topic. LMAO. Dead Wrong!

  • http://stewartsynopsis.com/Site%20Index.htm We “Blacks” Are The REAL Hebrew Israelites

    My God…it looks like someone dressed a baby piglet in BDSM gear.

    I call them “Willows” behind their backs…but only because I think they’re kinda cute and creepy.

    Like Willow.

  • Philly

    other groups always want to compare their issues to the black struggle; gays, now midgets

  • geico lizard

    THEIR ARGUMENTS KEEP COMING UP SHORT.

  • CAT EYES

    I DON’T KNOW BUT FOR SOME REASON i WAS ALWAYS CREEPED OUT BY “LITTLE PEOPLE”.I REMEMBER GROWING UP,MY MOTHER HAD A FRIEND THAT WAS A LITTLE PERSON AND I USED TO GET SO SCARED WHEN SHE WOULD COME AROUND.SHE WOULD ALWAYS TRY TO SQUEEZE MY FACE AND STUFF AND I WOULD RUN FROM HER.BUT SHE MUST HAVE HAD IT GOING ON BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS GORGEOUS AND SHE HAD 4 CHILDREN-ONLY 1 TURNED OUT TO BE A LITTLE PERSON.

  • charlieblanko

    in hell…lmao…roflmao

  • barb

    i am gonna have nightmares becuz of that pic!!!!!

  • Nicole

    I’m going to make this VERY CLEAR. “Little” people ARE NOT MIDGETS! They are small because they have something wrong with them. A midget would be someone like Jada Pinkett Smith who is abnormally small for no apparent reason. HOWEVER I would not compare it to a racial slur. Majority of little people are white and of course they want to compare it just like gays do. But you can’t compare the two you just can’t.

  • dia

    didnt say anything about black struggles.. ban the word i can tell how its offensive every race or type of person has an offensive or racial slur towards them its only rite to get rid of it

  • Mrsl.Boose a.k.a kaiistar a.k.a Booni Giovnni’s #1 fan

    LOL WHAT!!!!!!OK WELL WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THEM? LITTLE PEOPLE? OK WELL GOOD LUCK WITH THAT ONE LITTLE PEOPLE THERE ARE MANY WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAT ARE CONSIDERED RUDE, OFFENSIVE, MEAN, CRUEL RASIST HOWEVER YOU WANT TO CATAGORIZE THEM BUT TRYING TO BAN A WORD IDK ABOUT THAT ONE WONT THAT BE IN VIOLATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT R SUM’N WHT IS IT FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

  • http://www.abundantace.com/ ace

    The only reason why they are making a sink is for money.

    Where does it stop with the censorship? Pretty soon, saying just ANYTHING to anyone will be deemed as “offensive”. The people in this country have gotten so thin skinned it’s sickening.

  • cee bee

    whatever, i’ll stop saying the word midget if it bothers them so much, fine. but i really hate it when people fighting other causes compare themselves to the fight against racism. its NOT the same thing! same with gay people! i support your cause too, but it’s absolutely and utterly incomparable to racism

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