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| wraper:
LOL |
| daqq:
--- Quote from: paulca on June 18, 2020, 03:16:11 pm ---Retard and retarded for example. Meaning the opposite of advance/advanced. I feel that if I use it within it's correct defintion and someone finds it offensive then that's all on them and not on me. If they want to associate the word with ill or disabled people, then that's their bad, not mine. --- End quote --- Interestingly enough the propriety of the phrase "disabled people" is also in dispute by some ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disability-related_terms_with_negative_connotations ) |
| TimFox:
As soon as a new euphemism for a group is generated, the general public, not known for empathy, will use it as an insult. For example, the terms “moron” and “imbecile” were supposed to be more charitable than “idiot”, and “challenged” became an insult. |
| bd139:
Lots left: dum dum, div, eejit, numpty, dingbat, twonk, plonker. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: TimFox on June 18, 2020, 08:25:46 pm ---As soon as a new euphemism for a group is generated, the general public, not known for empathy, will use it as an insult. For example, the terms “moron” and “imbecile” were supposed to be more charitable than “idiot”, and “challenged” became an insult. --- End quote --- When I was a kid, "retarded" was the politically correct term, then it became an insult and then I remember hearing other euphemisms, I think "developmentally disabled" was the next one that became common, and then "special", and "specially abled", and then I kind of lost track. Dwarf and midget were both official terms to describe two distinctly different conditions but last I heard "they" preferred to be called "little people" which to me sounds absolutely cringeworthy and condescending but whatever. I have no desire to be offensive but I've got better things to do than keep learning new euphemisms to describe the same thing. It's often easier to just not talk about something than to figure out the correct words to use, and no matter what you say somebody somewhere is going to take offense, put words in your mouth or interpret whatever you say in the most offensive way possible. |
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