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Outdated mental illness terms being removed from law
Waterbury Republican-American ^
| May 9, 2007
| Julie Carr Smyth (A.P.)
Posted on 05/09/2007 10:12:04 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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Old-fashioned terms such as imbecile, lunatic and idiot were purged Tuesday from the Ohio law books
To be used in the future, exclusively, at Free Republic, directed at people who disagree with your learned and wise opinion.
To: Graybeard58
Idiots! Morons! Imbeciles! Democrats!..............
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:14:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:14:18 AM PDT
by
wayne_b24
(every day in the Light is a good day...)
To: Graybeard58
terms such as imbecile, lunatic and idiot were purged Tuesday from the Ohio law books Too bad. They fit so well when used to describe certain people.
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05/09/2007 10:14:52 AM PDT
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SkyPilot
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:14:55 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Graybeard58
I can't keep up with this P.C. speech codes.
"Differently abled" instead of "gimp"
"Developmentally delayed" instead of "friggin' retard"
"Folicularly challenged" instead of "baby hair"
Where will it end?
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:15:35 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Graybeard58
“State of Connecticut, Department of One Beer Short of a Sixpack”?
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05/09/2007 10:16:24 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: RECONRICK
How about replacing them all with “Dee dee dee?
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:19:06 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Graybeard58
Old-fashioned terms such as imbecile, lunatic and idiot were purged Tuesday from the Ohio law books. From now on, a single term, "moonbat democrat," which encompasses all of these previously-used terms, will be used in their place.
To: Graybeard58
When speaking to Liberals, must we now address ourselves to the “sanity-challenged” or the “intellectually different”?
To: Graybeard58
It is a never ending search for a term that changes reality. It will never succeed. As soon as a new term such as "Challenged" or "Special", or "Gay" becomes widely used it becomes associated with the condition it describes, and becomes an insult.
The terms imbecile, idiot, mental retardation, insanity and so on are good examples as these were initially introduced as neutral terminology intended to describe specific conditions.
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05/09/2007 10:22:22 AM PDT
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joshhiggins
(O you who believe! do not take the MUSLIMS for friends)
To: andy58-in-nh
intellectually deficient
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05/09/2007 10:25:51 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Graybeard58
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05/09/2007 10:26:04 AM PDT
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linn37
(Love your Phlebotomist)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Owl_Eagle
He who controls the language rules the world, don’t cha’ know?
F
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05/09/2007 10:28:25 AM PDT
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Frank Sheed
(Dead Ráibéad.... Lifelong Irish Papist!)
To: Red Badger
A few chocolate chips short of a cookie.
To: Graybeard58
The newest illegal:
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:30:33 AM PDT
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Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Graybeard58
Barking moonbats at work.
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:31:04 AM PDT
by
T'wit
(Visitors: you come here expecting a turkey shoot, and then you find out that you are the turkey.)
To: Graybeard58
>> Connecticut's House of Representatives voted unanimously to scrap the name of the state Department of Mental Retardation
People couldn't tell them apart.
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posted on
05/09/2007 10:31:53 AM PDT
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T'wit
(Visitors: you come here expecting a turkey shoot, and then you find out that you are the turkey.)
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