• Karjalan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You could replace it with something much more innocuous, like “imbiciles”, that gets the same message across

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      2 months ago

      Didn’t we originally get rid of imbicile as it was felt to be derogatory so we replaced it with mental retardation? Which then went from a medical term to a derogatory term so now we have to find a new term that will eventually become offensive. Euphemism treadmill forever