[WikiEN-l] Primer on PC (for Ed) (was: Re: Relativism and PC)

[Ray Saintonge]

John C. Penta wrote:

>As a minor side note, that situation has created (near as I can tell from my involvement) something of a small backlash among the disabled...Myself among them.
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>To put it simply, the next time I see the words "physically challenged", "visually challenged", (especially) "differently abled" (or "exceptional" in some circumstances), I'm going to kill someone. Slowly, painfully, and methodically.
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>There's something to be said for being direct. Call it as you see it; Disabled, crippled, blind, retarded, handicapped...whatever. Anyone old enough to be using the net with disabilities has, in our time, probably gotten used to their situation, and WP shouldn't try to dance around the issue.
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It's not all that minor.  This only proves the point that trying to 
stuff political correctnes into the left/right spectrum doesn't work. 
 Locally one of the groups that  helps the (I believe) mentally 
handicapped calls itself the "Association for Community Living".  Such a 
name strikes me as pompous, and I would be convinced that it was not the 
mentally handicapped who conceived the term.  

Although I'm decidedly on the left end of the spectrum it doesn't stop 
me from complaining about terminology that obscures reality.

Ec