Re:A History of Political Correctness
by tptacek on Sunday November 10, 2013 @10:20PM
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I have no idea how to parse this comment. Calling someone a "spastic" seems horrible. Kids in schoolyards looking to score points at the expense of the disabled are horrible. Assuming that a kid with ADHD is the victim of bad parenting seems like a terrible idea. Following your idea to its logical conclusion, it seems like we'd still be calling black people the n-word; after all, much of the use of that word in the first half of the 20th century was probably intended to be neutral.
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It seems horrible now but it was the normal term at the time; even the charity was called the Spastics Society. And you only have that reaction because you've bought into the PC game.
But my point is, PC doesn't really work. Everyone "knows" what is really meant by any of the PC terms.