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Ah, political correctness...

• Someone1234 12y ago
  Ah, poor vocabulary... English has a bunch of words meaning "stupid" or "foolish." For example: absurd, asinine, brainless, cockamamy, crazy, daffy, daft, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, dippy, doltish, dopey, dotty, dull, dumb, dummy, fantastic, fatuous, feebleminded, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered, imbecilic, imprudent, inane, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insane, insensate, irrational, irrelevant, jerky, kooky, laughable, loony, loser, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nerdy, nonsensical, nutty, obtuse, pointless, preposterous, puerile, rash, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, shortsighted, silly, simple, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, stupid, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise, wacky, weak, witless, zany
  • acheron 12y ago
    And several of those were formerly clinical descriptions of "mental retardation" -- "idiot" and "imbecile" for two -- exactly the same as "retard". The only difference is that they're further back on the euphemism treadmill. You can argue against the use of certain words if you'd like, but you can't pretend that it's anything other than political correctness.
    • Someone1234 12y ago
      It shows a lack of professionalism, a poor vocabulary, and a general disrespect towards the mentally handicapped. It just isn't up to the standards that people expect in this day and age. You seem to think "political correctness" is some kind of dirty term, rather than just accepting that times change, and society has moved on. Homosexuals are no longer seen as a negative (per "gay" as a derogatory) and the mentally handicapped are no longer seen as being idiots or fools (per "retard" as a derogatory). It surprises me that some people simply do not appreciate this and how their use of language reflects on them as people.
      • blumkvist 12y ago
        /me tips his fedora.
  • xroche 12y ago
    Poor vocabulary, most probably, not being a native speaker. But I wanted to emphasize the fact that it was not just a stupid decision, but a well-documented stupid decision. It takes few minutes on google to learn that it is detrimental to learning (with scientific facts), and if everybody can do stupid mistakes, I call insisting on doing documented mistakes being "retarded". And no, I did not intend to attack handicapped people, this is just plain ridiculous. But you may have a better, more suitable adjective for that.
• blumkvist 12y ago
  Tyranny with manners.
• dsr_ 12y ago
  90% of the time you can replace "political correctness" with "politeness"... including this case.