Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by srtjstjsj on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:57AM (#25928294)

Nope! "Person with" was almost instantly rejected because it is insulting to an unremovable aspect of someone's existence, condemning someone as broken and lesser.

Here we have a too-common case of virtue chasers on the "same side" attacking each other because they have slightly different useless solutions to a problem. (The way you to show more respect to different people with differences is to show more respect in actions, not to play word games that the vast majority of affected people with effects don't care about.)

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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by thaumasiotes on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:01AM (#25928338)

> The way you to show more respect to different people with differences is to show more respect in actions, not to play word games that the vast majority of affected people with effects don't care about.

If anyone cared what the group being described thought about the terminology, no one would ever have tried to say "Latinx".

Like I said above, pure fashion.

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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by Macha on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:10PM (#25931613)

Huh, I was basing that on someone I know who recently completed a relevant college degree and is now working in the field of intellectual disabilities - the advice they received, both academic and professional is that "people with disabilities"/person centered language is the approach.

I had a look, the wikipedia page[1] indicates at least in the US that the American Medical Association, United Spinal Association and various federal and state bodies recommend it as best practice, but also points out various groups for deaf and blind people disagree.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language#Rational...

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