• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    1 day ago

    We have a desire to say it nicely but the new polite words always become slurs again eventually. You’ll probably be shamed for saying disabled in another generation by a holier than thou thirteen year old.

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      It’s already happened. Some people want you to say “differently abled”.