ableism?
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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There was a conversation awhile back about how any term used to describe someone with a disability eventually becomes a slur and history tends to back that up, but I'd say 'special needs' is probably about the least offensive qualifier we have today.
For 4chan, that's like a miracle.
special needs sounds more like an insult tbh
The euphemism treadmill
I did theatre in high school (a decade ago) and we performed the straight play The Boys Next Door, a story about four intellectually disabled men living together with the help of their caretaker. The original show was written circa 1988, and uses "retarded" as the word to describe the men. Obviously for a high school play, we couldn't use that.
Our director interfaced with a local group to determine what the correct terminology should be, and over the course of rehearsal, we changed the phrase from mentally challenged to intellectually challenged to intellectually disabled. It was important to us to make sure we got it right, but it was also surprising that the term changed very quickly.
Not sure what the politically correct term is nowadays, I try and avoid the R slur. Point is, this is a dumb greentext among the many I have saved; I Guess I could have picked a different one.
Agreed, ableism.
"Class Bully" would have been a better choice, since this is clearly fiction anyway. School classrooms don't have fabric softener. So they'd have to bring it, with malicious intent, ergo bully. And probably smart enough to hide it from the teacher.
Afaik, "bullyism," if it even exists, is laudable.
but ehh it's 4chan what did you expect