https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1783972323823145447
In late 2009, NPR ran a very effective effort to vilify the word βretardedβ and outright ban its use from the lexicon.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 26, 2024
It was slowly building steam through the Associated Press the year before and following NPRβs efforts, the word was effectively purged from the mainstreamβ¦ pic.twitter.com/XZqizRL1pB
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I've been trying to bring 'spastic' back. Can't go wrong with the classics
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go full '80s and say spazoid
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old butt neighbor π
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dont spaz out dork!
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Sped (for special ed) was also a classic one when I was younger.
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We're not supposed to say sped anymore, either. Some DEI person at work literally told a group of us teachers that we needed to start referring to SPED kids as βdifferent learnersβ
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Sperg
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