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Think for a minute that you had an intellectual disability. Would you be comfortable with people casually using the word?
by scubadude 11y ago
Think for a minute that you had an intellectual disability. Would you be comfortable with people casually using the word?
- ploxiln 11y agoThis reaction to the word will over time also come to the replacement word that people will need to come up with to refer to the condition. "idiot" and "imbecile" used to be the terms used by medical professionals to refer to mentally retarded people in the 50s and 60s. Then those terms became insults, so they started using the term "mentally retarded". Now that retard has become an insult, another word will have to be found, (handicapped? slow?) and then it will become an insult, and they'll have to find another word...
- omegaham 11y agoAlso known as the "euphemism treadmill." The next phase has already begun - "You were one of the special children, weren't you" is a pretty common start to an ass-chewing in the military. They'll have to move on pretty soon.
- hueving 11y agoI'm not comfortable with people casually contributing to nodejs. Can I have that banned?