Posted: Oct 02, 2014 7:24 pm
Clive Durdle wrote:On language and disability things are changing for the better. Spaz, crip, gimp, mong are now not acceptable. "Disabled people" is slowly becoming normal as newspaper editors use their guides.
That's the point though. Those words became unacceptable, so people used the new words as insults instead. It's not that long since retarded was the PC term. Now it's something that can get you into a lot of trouble. You could potentially make the argument that a change in language facilitates a change in attitudes, but I'm not sure how true that is, because of the long line of previous attempts.