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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ha. That's retarded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well it's all in the mind of the interpreter. So if you live in a society of self-indulgent solipsists, you gotta respect that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

It just gets shortened to disabled. I've seen it used countless times as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought they already changed it to differently abled. As dis-abled implies they can't do something, when differently implies they can do things, yet they may just do it in another manner.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure that "mentally retarded" was the medical term for many decades, before it became cultural lingo. There was something similar for erectile dysfunction too, they used to call you impotent, not exactly a great thing to hear at the doctor's office.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i wish you were right :( citing experience haha