The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Shirts That Go Hard@lemmy.world · 2 years ago1982 was a different timelemmy.worldimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThe 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.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoretarded doesn’t have any more negative meaning than disabled. it’s just about how we use it.
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.
retarded doesn’t have any more negative meaning than disabled. it’s just about how we use it.