Marion G. "Pat" Robertson Refers To Children With Down Syndrome As 'Mongoloid'

[KamaAina]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-refers-children-down-syndrome-mongoloid

Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson and his co-host Terry Meeuwsen talked about children born with cleft palate and Down syndrome, the latter of whom Robertson referred to as “mongoloid” children.

“So you see these little children that we call mongoloid, you know, Down syndrome, sweet little children but the back part [of the head] hasn’t formed,” he said. “It’s a deformity, if you have a little girl, can you imagine having a big hole in the mouth?”

Earlier this year, Robertson advised a viewer to be careful against marrying her first cousin since “you don’t want to have some mongoloid child.”

Yo, Marion! 1955 called. It wants its lingo back.

[moriah]

1. And since he's confusing spina bifida and cleft palate with Down's....

... and thinking any of the three are inherited or occur as a result of incest....

Well, we already knew he disregards sinuses.

[AngryAmish]

3. A lot of Downs kids have cleft palates

Part of the syndrome

[moriah]

7. Can't find evidene of that on Wiki or anywhere else.

The other trisomies (13 and 18) do often cause cleft palate, but I can't find any website saying it's common on trisomy 21.

[Warpy]

8. No, that's a separate issue

relating to the fusion of the palate and upper lip during early development in utero. Most children with cleft lip and/or palate have at least normal intelligence.

A good discussion of the physical symptoms of Down's kids is at Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome

[Iggo]

2. I wonder if he has a solution that goes back to the 1930s and 40s.

You know, a final solution.


(Godwin in one. Yes!)

[Coventina]

4. oy.

That man is an idiot.
But a dangerous one, because his viewers think he knows what he's talking about.

[Rex]

5. Did you really expect him to know any facts? nt

nt

[Warpy]

6. That terminology went out in the 1950s as the syndrome was better described

Civilians called them "Mongoloid idiots." Classy.

Robertson got stuck 60 years ago. Amazing.

A little girl with a big hole in the mouth sounds like his porn fantasy.

Shut up, Pat, just SHUT UP.

[Initech]

9. Pat Robertson is the only real mongoloid here.

[get the red out]

10. I doubt it's news

that he's neither smart nor empathetic.