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04-28-2020, 11:41 AM #15651
Regarding the Baker* doctors opinions, remember never to mistake stupidity for malignancy.
Explains a lot around here as well.
And it makes it easier to be compassionate.
Even for doctors.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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04-28-2020, 11:41 AM #15652
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04-28-2020, 11:50 AM #15653
The irony is thick, all of those words you cited were denotative indicators for mental acuity and processing speed, in turn they each became connotative slurs. I've worked with developmentally disabled adults for a long time, and periodically the language we use has changed to move it away from a pejorative assimilation such as you suggest. I find it tiresome, when writing reports, we can't call a tantrum a tantrum, because someone might be offended. Incident reports were renamed event reports; the people we serve have gone from "clients" to "consumers" to "individuals in service". All of this is because some fuckwit needs to find a spicier insult to hurl.
That said, there are low IQ folks I work with who think Trump is an idiot.I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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04-28-2020, 11:55 AM #15654
I had someone lose it on me a while back for using the term "kook" to describe someone. I thought it was "kooky" of her but have since stopped using the word because the cat's outta the bag in my mind and besides, I don't like getting yelled at right or wrong. In my book it's easier and more pleasant to avoid conflict so if you tell me a word offends you I'll find another that works. Pretty easy to do.
*bend like a reed grasshopper*“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
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04-28-2020, 11:56 AM #15655Registered User
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Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey
Same age. We definitely threw the word around a lot, but I don’t recall it ever used toward the special ed kids. I’m not saying kids were never mean toward them, but I don’t recall the word being used against them around me.
Rasputin, good reminder on language corruption and evolution.
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04-28-2020, 12:04 PM #15656
It's one thing for you to adjust personally, it's another thing for entire companies, state agencies, and the entire industry to constantly adjust. I'm a wordsmith, and can always find ways to weave words to say what I want, but the constant change of language infrastructure to serve someone's sense of propriety, is cumbersome, impractical, and doesn't keep the offensive from being offensive.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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04-28-2020, 12:07 PM #15657I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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04-28-2020, 12:11 PM #15658
Frankly, that's bullshit. The word kook may have been insulting toward that person but it's not something that should be seen in the same vein as 'retard' or the n-word. Why should you bend to meet the demand of someone else's world view of what's an improper word? You caved because it was easier than being yelled at instead of that person being right. I would have stood my ground on that one. The person apparently was, indeed, a kook. If we let people run over us for the use of specific words, as we've done, we won't have any words left.
I don't mean to go off on this but I'm a little sensitive to political correctness run amok. I'd have likely told the kook that she proved my original assertion and let her yell.
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04-28-2020, 12:13 PM #15659Registered User
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Holy fuck, stupidity has no bounds
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2...=socialnetwork
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04-28-2020, 12:15 PM #15660
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04-28-2020, 12:17 PM #15661
I'm a nimrod.
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04-28-2020, 12:21 PM #15662
I think what they were saying is that it is unacceptable to insult anyone. Which of course is unacceptable. "Kook" is a completely acceptable and very mild way to insult someone. AFAIK the word has never been associated with the mentally ill or developmentally disabled but only with people who are eccentric and often endearingly so. Whatever word you use as a substitute will undoubtedly be offensive to the person who couldn't tolerate "kook". So you may resume using it if you wish.
We never used or heard the words "retard" or "retarded" but that was because we were all above average.
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04-28-2020, 12:22 PM #15663
She's a top-shelf nutter C U Next Tuesday. https://www.cherylchumley.com/?page_id=19
Specializing in intellectually dishonest so-called "debate and arguments" by someone who certainly knows better....one could say... deplorable?
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04-28-2020, 12:23 PM #15664
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04-28-2020, 12:25 PM #15665
This comes as I faced criticism from my boss yesterday for describing her nephew as a “little person”. I guess that’s not ok now, and we’re saying “dwarf”.
Boss was asking about my wife’s job. Then said her nephew “George” (name changed) works there in a specific role. My wife hired this dwarf, and hand made parts of his uniform at home in her own time, he’s a fundamentally unproductive employee because he’s smaller and slower than the standard amount of work you plan for for his salary, and my wife just sucks it up because having him there is a value to the community and it’s the right thing to do.
I was like: George? ...he just started there this year? He’s a little person?
She acts annoyed: “yeah”
I tell her I know who he is because my wife spent a lot of time at home working on his uniform.
She’s like: well, he’s a dwarf (lots of emphasis), and his mom does a lot of sewing.
Okey dokey then. Lesson learned: hiring disabled people is just a huge can of worms. Got it! Loud and clear! Thanks!
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04-28-2020, 12:26 PM #15666
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04-28-2020, 12:31 PM #15667
Didn't we have a conversation about Finns and social distancing a couple hundred pages back?
Cartoons of Finnish Nightmares Even Non-Finns Can Relate To“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
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04-28-2020, 12:35 PM #15668
Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey
Years ago in SF some east coast guys had never heard Kook. They thought I was saying Gook. Totally different. Anyone can be a Kook. It’s not necessarily even bad.
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04-28-2020, 12:37 PM #15669
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04-28-2020, 12:37 PM #15670
This is a positive sign in the fight against corona virus in that you all are moving on and arguing about dwarfs and retards now.
Social distraction."timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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04-28-2020, 12:39 PM #15671
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04-28-2020, 12:39 PM #15672
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04-28-2020, 12:39 PM #15673
The Addams Family is kooky. That's good enough for me.
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04-28-2020, 12:43 PM #15674
why wasn't there a plan months ago to use the US military to move produce from farms that would otherwise rot to food banks should there be shortages?
Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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04-28-2020, 12:46 PM #15675
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