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      But you bring up a good point which is where does it end? Honestly, if someone told me mentally challenged wasn't PC, I'd tell them to shove it. If someone told me black and gay weren't PC, same story. I'm drawing the line. I don't mind if I can't say Negro but I'm not switching to african american or homosexual or any of these other PC terms.

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      To me "homosexual" sounds more offensive than gay, honestly. And "gay" is a perfectly acceptable term. So is black, at least where I'm from. What if someone's from Jamaica or Haiti? They aren't African American, or African. They are Haitian. But Haitian isn't a race. Neither is English or French.

      We give our children video games where the primary objective is to murder each other, I'm OK with that. We have nudity pretty much everywhere, which that's fine. But God forbid we use the wrong euphemism to describe someone. THEN we're insensitive.

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      What's tragic about this thread is that despite what most people are saying, if someone actually used such a word on this forum, even in a perfectly neutral context (but not self-referentially), they would immediately be banned.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Omnis Dei View Post
      But you bring up a good point which is where does it end? Honestly, if someone told me mentally challenged wasn't PC, I'd tell them to shove it. If someone told me black and gay weren't PC, same story. I'm drawing the line. I don't mind if I can't say Negro but I'm not switching to african american or homosexual or any of these other PC terms.
      Lol well, homosexual is just the correct way to describe a person. Akin to retarded.

      And I bet mentally challenged is, or will be politically incorrect soon, because challenge has a slight negative connotation.

      EDIT: Just read preserver's post, apparently it is non-PC already.

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      I don't see how it's offensive to call a non-developmentally-disabled person "retarded." It's the same as calling them "idiots" (which is an even OLDER term for those with mental disorders.) Also, mental disorder is becoming too offensive as a term, mental imbalance is a "softened" way to say it.

      Pretty soon all of our words will be made of fluffy cotton clouds, they'll be so softened. I'll be a Caucasian European-American (specifically Finnish, Irish, Scottish, German, Polish, and Slovenian.) who has a mental abnormality. I'm not tall, I'm vertically-gifted. (Exaggeration, sure. But for how long is it exaggeration?)

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      Quote Originally Posted by ThePreserver View Post
      who has a mental abnormality.
      I see "a mental deference from the majority".

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      Quote Originally Posted by tommo View Post
      I see "a mental deference from the majority".
      Don't say "majority". That implies a greater number of people in that group. I'm offended by that.

      A "mental uniqueness shared by a certain number of other individuals."
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      So if I want to insult my friend do I call him an alternative lifestyle individual?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
      So if I want to insult my friend do I call him an alternative lifestyle individual?
      That would depend on what makes their lifestyle "alternative". If they are an individual with a mental uniqueness shared by others, it's not a lifestyle, it's a mindset.

      Although to INSULT them, you typically say something offensive, do you not? If you want to be nice you could call them an alternative lifestyle individual!

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      Quote Originally Posted by ThePreserver View Post
      Don't say "majority". That implies a greater number of people in that group. I'm offended by that.

      A "mental uniqueness shared by a certain number of other individuals."
      haha! I know, I was trying to figure out how I could not imply and abnormality.
      Well done!

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      Quote Originally Posted by ThePreserver View Post
      A "mental uniqueness shared by a certain number of other individuals."
      Can't use the word "mental", it's offensive. Also, the word "certain" implies that the number is known when in fact it isn't, so that's offensive.

      My version: "unique activation pattern of the upper cerebral cortex shared by an indeterminate number of other individuals".

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      Quote Originally Posted by Omnis Dei View Post

      (Please don't delete this thread or ban me, I'm doing my best to follow community guidelines but this topic is important to me)
      You presented the thread a helluva lot better this time. That's why it's not deleted. As for everything else that's going on, I agree a lot with what O had to say. It's real easy to tell someone to get over a label that they've never had the experience of getting degraded by, but it's a lot harder to actually understand what that person is going through when they hear those words.

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      Two things to note, firstly, what is wrong with using X term amongst those whom you know will not find it offensive? Obviously I'm not gonna call a mentally disabled person a retard to their face, but what's wrong with using it amongst family and friends?

      Secondly, I wonder why there was no white person in that video saying "it's not acceptable to call me a cracker/honky" I wonder if it was just the mentally disabled lobby behind this or other liberals/social marxists aswell.

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      Now that I think about it... "Unique" implies that they are different in some way. How do we soften that term?

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      This is getting irritating, I'm going to use mentally challenged. They'll know what I mean.

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      Quote Originally Posted by ThePreserver View Post
      Now that I think about it... "Unique" implies that they are different in some way. How do we soften that term?
      "occasionally non-conforming activation pattern of the upper cerebral cortex shared by an indeterminate number of other individuals".

      Everybody loves to be a non-conformist!

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      Quote Originally Posted by cmind View Post
      "occasionally non-conforming activation pattern of the upper cerebral cortex shared by an indeterminate number of other individuals".

      Everybody loves to be a non-conformist!
      non-conforming has too much of a connotation with emos.
      Nobody likes emos.
      Further, it is impossible to not conform with everything.
      Are you calling them non-sensical and illogical emos?

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      Quote Originally Posted by cmind View Post
      "occasionally non-conforming activation pattern of the upper cerebral cortex shared by an indeterminate number of other individuals".
      "occasionally differently advantaged activation pattern of the upper cerebral cortex shared by an indeterminate number of other individuals and/or beings"

      That's got it.

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      Good job PC generator!

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      Quote Originally Posted by cmind View Post
      "occasionally differently advantaged activation pattern of the upper cerebral cortex shared by an indeterminate number of other individuals and/or beings"

      That's got it.
      PERFECT! For the next 12 months we have the most appropriate, soft term available. It'll become offensive soon enough, though.

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      I'm already offended. Your insinuating we all have cerebral cortexes!

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