• Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Pro tip: It still is a medical term. Internet activists deciding they don’t like a word doesn’t actually change the word.

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      6 months ago

      It’s not only the ‘SJW’ crowd who are asking people to stop using it, but also the medical field, patients, and their caregivers directly asking everyone to stop.

      The results of both the parent and professional surveys support a move away from the use of the term mental retardation. The majority of parents indicated that they would be upset if a physician used the term mental retardation.

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        6 months ago

        Probably under pressure from the SJWs. Medical people are practically minded, not given to rewriting the nomenclature to suit the fashion of the hour (they still use Latin for God’s sake). Unless the money is threatened of course.