It's supposedly PC to say little person instead of midget. I couldn't care less if someone called me midget, but little person? Sounds like something you'd call a child. Anyone else (especially on the short end of the spectrum) who have feelings on that?

Agreed.

Ethnically Challenged as opposed to negros. What's wrong with negro?

"Special needs" rather than handicapped. Smarmy and condescending.
I would gag on it if I tried to call my nephew " a special needs child" aloud.

No, its DIFFERENTIALLY ABLED, YOU dirty racist, misogyonist, Bolivian Bigfeets hater!!!!

I had someone flip out over me using "mentally retarded" recently. I know the proper term is special needs, but really what difference does it make? The context I used it in it was clear I wasn't trying to be insulting.

You fool, they were not pissed at the terminology, they were pissed because you obviously INSISTED on continuing to talk about yourself.

Did you just make a failed attempt at insulting a KOOKSCRO member?

There needs to be a word to describe individuals who have a low IQ. People have used retarded as an insult (rather than a medical or educational term). But thing is change the word people will use the new supposedly more PC term as an insult before long. I'd say it's changing behavior and attitudes that will make a difference.

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There needs to be a word to describe individuals who have a low IQ.

We have one already, it's Niggers.

I've always felt that way about "little person" also. It sounds belittling, so to speak.

Illegal Aliens – Replaced by Undocumented Immigrants.

Even if a person enters a country illegally, a human being cannot by their existential nature be "illegal". Acts are illegal, not people. "Illegal aliens" is just an ignorant bastardization of language.

An alien (not including visitors from outer space) is a non-citizen of the country in which he's residing.

An illegal is someone who entered the country without proper or legal authorization.

The NOUN is alien. The PRONOUN is illegal.

I think you mean "The ADJECTIVE is illegal".

But the difference is the same. They entered the country without documents. But their very existence is not "illegal". They do have Constitutional rights in the U.S. Are rights in the Constitution not legal ones?

"Illegal aliens" is just an ignorant bastardization of language.

In reality it's the legal term that the government uses when it isn't using 'newspeak' to reporters.

No, the U.S. government does not recognize the term "illegal" in regards to aliens. This is from the conservative National Review, a right wing source which is very much against undocumented immigrants. Even they disagree with you:

U.S. law does not define illegal alien, nor does it use the term illegal immigrant.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/303963/illegal-immigrant-racial-slur-ian-tuttle

Sarah Silverman said the name should be changed from "midget" to "oh yes you are! Gitchy gitchy goo!"

What if they ask if you're part of the Lollipop Guild?

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If that's the case you had better not mess with them, they are now heavily connected with that family out in Jersey.

How about nanoperson?

"The N word" for the exact same reason Louis CK lays out in his stand up. That always pissed me off.

I think the term Lilliputian has it's merits.

maximal pigmentiert (maximum pigmentation) for black people.

There is no one word that is offensive to me, it is the context in which the words are said which may become offensive. To paraphrase Chris Rock, "was there hate in their heart when they called you a little person?"

child and shorty

bigfoot and sasquatch

chick and bitch

bigfoot and sasquatch

What would you use instead?

Bigfoot is politically incorrect because it ridicules an inborn trait. It's politically correct to say gays are born that way, so why attack sasquatches?

Well skunk ape infers they smell like shit and abominable snowman infers a violent asshole.

Skunk ape? That would make a great message board insult.

Yeah, that's what it's known as in Florida.

I know the thread is ranging far afield of your topic, but this is at least related.

One I heard recently is "gender confirmation surgery". Gimme a break.

First was "sex change operation" - not offensive. Then came "gender reassignment surgery" - okay, fine, I guess that's more scientific-sounding.

"Gender confirmation surgery"?? Now I'm offended.

I use Jenner Reassignment Surgery. It has a nice ring to it.

One I heard recently is "gender confirmation surgery".

I haven't heard that one. I agree, it goes deeply into bizarro world territory.

Many people long for the days before PC when kids were allowed to play Livestock Management Technicians and Indigenous Peoples.

It's probably the same people who tried to make "handi-capable" a thing, and also tried to go overboard by replacing "special-needs" with crap like "gifted" or "exceptional".

African American. You're one or the other. There's as much connection between Africa and America for black skinned people as there as between Europe and America for white skinned people, which is the fact that our ancestors came from overseas. American isn't a race or an ethnic group, it's people whose nationality is of the United States.

So what race is he?

https://thehande.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/brucelee.jpg

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Dead.

Food artisans who make a living curing chicken meat being labeled as ✌cock smokers✌.

"person of color"

When you jump through hoops all the time to find more PC ways to phrase things, it usually comes off as borderline absurd or more offensive than the supposedly un PC way of phrasing it.

Mine is: "Microaggressions".

It's just a new way for the lazy and stupid to complain about the trivialities of their lives and make it sound as if someone actually harmed them by asking a simple question like "where are you from?".

PC period is wrong. Just to not offended someone. It's because of this PC stuff that the truth get silenced.

Anything with the word "challenged" following it.

First thing I thought of K.

My wife, Gayle, was only a few cm taller than you, and although I'm 6'1", I never thought of her height as anything but "normal". Actually, I never thought about it at all unless I was buying clothes for her. She hated shopping and thought my taste was better than hers.

She hated shopping and thought my taste was better than hers.

You may be turning . . .

Do you own grooming products, moisturiser etc?
Do you wave your hands around when watching Oprah Winfrey?
Do you critique clothes and home decor?

The Spastics Society in the UK changed its name to Scope.

The word 'spastic' became a term of abuse.

http://www.scope.org.uk/history

Bunch of fecking spazzers

Positive Discrimination / Affirmative Action

^Ah, that most infamous, cynical and indeed condescending of right-on rebranding exercises!

Yes, strategically removing the 'discrimination' part of such unmistakably divisive, speciously motivated and hateful ideology will definitely fool the proles into believing that practicing discrimination against the right (apparently) sort of demographic is suddenly entirely justified.....

Or not.



Personally I still stubbornly use the former term to piss off those bigoted and deluded enough to embrace the concept.

Even with Affirmative Action, white people still have the advantage when it comes to getting a job, even everything else is account for.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-high-school-drop-outs-are-as-likely-to-land-jobs-as-black-college-students/

Matey, if you genuinely believe (assuming that's what you're inferring) there's a modicum of rationality in advocating the employment of people for reasons contrary to their respective suitability, aptitude, ability and/or academic qualifications, then you have my deepest sympathies.

Embracing 'diversity' (and a very selective diversity at that) by lowering standards and/or discriminating against the capable is the death knell of any business.

So anon, not even going to reply to what I posted I see.

You know it is kind of PC to complain about words. So all the people here complaining about terms are practicing their own PCness.

Martin O'Malley using "new American" instead of "illegal immigrant." I'm pretty liberal on immigration but that's just absurd.

That's the kind of stupidity that would refer to home invaders as 'new houseguests'.

Undocumented

Illegal alien is a more logical term.

Special needs

Either use retarded or mentally handicapped.

Fire fighter

Just use firemen.