President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
I don't know about that, given how much you seem to struggle with it.
I don't like talking about this subject for a very specific personal reason. I'm not going to bring it up publicly in this space, but there are a few of you who, if you messaged me privately asking, I would fill in. It's not a huge deal and I'm not the one that resurrected this topic out of nowhere, but I don't mind saying this particular issue is personal for me.
Thesaurus, lmao. Try a psychology book. Idiot, imbecile, and moron were all medical terms used professionally. You never took PSY101 in college?You can say you don't like it because social movements changed it to a slur - fine, or you can use a George Carlin mindset and say there is nothing more offensive about the word ****** than the word idiot, especially when idiot was the
"R-tarded" becoming a slur wasn't a "social movement" in the sense that a bunch of people banded together, collectively decided the r-word is a slur, and passionately advocated for such. It was much more of an informal thing, which is how it usually goes, in which some critical mass of people used the word as a slur often enough where the meaning of the word shifted somewhat off of its medical use.
I already know that these words were all used medically. The meanings of our words aren't etched in granite forevermore. The word "cool" was not used to describe something positive or popular for the first few thousand years or so, but now we all automatically understand and use that particular usage of the word.
For the record, I don't really care if the word is used in entertainment/art, and I'm not trying to get anybody banned for writing it, I just think using it is inappropriate in certain contexts and also just lame (yet another word with shifting meanings.)
Also, George Carlin was a pathetic hack for the last, like, 20 years of his career. Nobody ran through the goodwill garnered through early work faster than that guy. The nadir was probably when he advocated for Rudy Guiliani to take over the entire US domestic apparatus post-9/11.
If EmptyTheCities is KoG, he kindly informed me previously that the preferred term is "differently abled". He still owes me an answer for how exactly a low IQ individual is "differently abled", and what exactly it is he or she can do by virtue of having a low IQ that others cannot.
I honestly don't recall telling you that, and I'm pretty sure I've never called anybody differently abled in my life. I believe that "mentally disabled" is the term du rigueur, and although I suppose the former term is less judgmental than that, it hasn't (yet?) taken over from the latter phrase.
I honestly don't recall telling you that, and I'm pretty sure I've never called anybody differently abled in my life. I believe that "mentally disabled" is the term du rigueur, and although I suppose the former term is less judgmental than that, it hasn't (yet?) taken over from the latter phrase.
I said "if you're KoG". So, you're him then I take it. You don't seem anywhere near as angry, so if you are him, you/he must be back on the meds.
Cuba is a national security threat to the US, Rubio says
It's wild how many imminent threats are popping up on the radar under the Trump admin. What's the threat exactly? Communism? Weeks away from a nuclear weapon perhaps?
I said "if you're KoG". So, you're him then I take it. You don't seem anywhere near as angry, so if you are him, you/he must be back on the meds.
Yeah. I've said this on multiple occasions. I'm not evading a ban; I just forgot my password.
Looks like I have indeed used "differently abled", albeit within the context of describing a group instead of as a descriptor of an individual, which I think is very germane to this discussion, but fair enough, my bad.
To answer your question about how a low-IQ person is "differently abled"; it probably is a misnomer to some degree, as "able" means having skills or power to achieve a task, and I'm unaware of any abilities the low-IQ populace has that the rest of the populace does not. "Mentally disabled" holds a clear negative connotation, so if we want to refer to these people without judgement, we may need find something new. Maybe they can all be referred to as neuroatypical. That seems accurate enough; it's often a reference to specifically autistic people, but I don't see why it would be illogical to use on low-IQ people in the future. Low-IQ people do indeed have atypical thought processes.
Can this planet give Cuba a ****in' break for a second? Are decades of severe economic sanctions not enough? I hate Marco Rubio so badly.
The trump thread seems to have a lot of trouble staying on topic. Much like trump himself.
You mean, something that has never happened?
And, look who's back. Forget your elway password?
We seem to have a history of ****ing with countries based on bullshit that we say could happen, but never happened.
Yeah. I've said this on multiple occasions. I'm not evading a ban; I just forgot my password.Looks like I have indeed used "differently abled", albeit within the context of describing a group instead of as a descriptor of an individual, which I think is very germane to this discussion, but fair enough, my bad.To answer your question about how a low-IQ person is "differently a
I actually misspoke, I meant "you're not him then, I take it", but in misspeaking it seems I have elicited a confession.
What difference does it make if you forgot your password to an account that is permabanned? It's still permabanned, your password is useless.
Maybe they can all be referred to as neuroatypical. That seems accurate enough; it's often a reference to specifically autistic people, but I don't see why it would be illogical to use on low-IQ people in the future. Low-IQ people do indeed have atypical thought processes.
I think you answered your own question - because the term is already in use and would therefore introduce unnecessary ambiguity. I don't want to have to clarify every time someone says "neuroatypical" whether they mean idiot savant or just idiot.
Being dumb is not seen as a desirable quality, with good reason, so any term you use for it will take on all the characteristics of a slur, and no amount of wishful thinking or political correctness on your part is going to change that inexorable fact of life.
Natalie Harp, the aide he's very, very close to...🙄
Writes Trump creepy love letters, and is considered a security threat by the secret service due to their working relationship.
One of the letters Harp allegedly wrote said, "You are all that matters to me," and described Trump as her "Guardian and Protector in this Life." In another, Harp wrote to Trump: "I want to bring you joy."
I think you answered your own question - because the term is already in use and would therefore introduce unnecessary ambiguity. I don't want to have to clarify every time someone says "neuroatypical" whether they mean idiot savant or just idiot.Being dumb is not seen as a desirable quality, with good reason, so any term you use for it will take on all the characteristics of a
You're right that being dumb is not seen as a desirable quality, but that doesn't mean it's appropriate to solely refer these people in purely negative manner. Nobody chooses to be dumb. I can't see how it's cool to issue slurs to people about personal qualities over which they have no control. Nobody chooses to be gay, and being gay is seen as an undesirable quality amongst huge swaths of the population, but I bet you'd agree that calling gay people the f-slur is inappropriate. If the only difference between the two is that you think the former is for "good reason" and the latter is not; that's fine on a personal level, but it has no influence on language as it is used across the planet.
Putting all of these people under the umbrella of neuroatypical was an idle suggestion; I'm open to others. Words regularly become more-or-less ambiguous over time, depending on changes in how they are used, and the level to which you find these changes inconvenient isn't relevant and has nothing to do with PC.
I dislike the term African American because its use as a description of a particular person is often flatly inaccurate (very un-PC of me, right?), but I'm not gonna get mad when I see someone referred to as such.
God the rapist is totally gonna post on the Mongo and elway account simultaneously now isn’t it?
