• frezik@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    The Euphemism Treadmill might stop when the term is so clinically dry as “mentally disabled”. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue of a schoolyard bully the way “retarded” does. I dunno, we’ll see.

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      6 months ago

      retarded doesn’t have any more negative meaning than disabled. it’s just about how we use it.