Farktards...

I thought the term was Tardfarks.

Political Correctness is a blight on our culture and a possible threat to free speech, especially if you put it on the slippery slope of special interest groups. After all, who would want to risk the bad publicity of voting against something like this?

..If you criminalize retards, only criminals will have retards?

Tadfracks...

I am a fan of "re-re"s, as in "This desk looks like it was built by a re-re!" from Clerks.

I'm going to keep calling them Republicans, even if this law is passed.

I don't see what the hell the difference is. I guess I'm an "individual who doesn't see what the diference is" instead of just plain ignorant.

Eat More Possum: English evolved with 'certain terms' because they are descriptive. Where is the progress when the blind, the deaf, the crippled are all lumped under the generic heading of 'individuals with disabilities'?


Don't forget the dumb and the lame! It's usually "the blind, the deaf, the dumb, and the lame."

No, we've never changed the words we use to describe people...

Here's a semi-serious and interesting question: Is stupidity a disability?

luvnuriko,

The term is "people exhibiting stupid behavior". Have you
learned nothing?

The state's mortuaries will now cease calling their clients "metabolically challenged" in favor of the more positive "entropically enabled".

As a Libertarian I credit the submitter for a good headline....to the rest of us I say let's change our voting habits for smaller goverment done right. ( hint: repubs and dems can't do it.)

"Is stupidity a disability?"

No, people with disabilities aren't as annoying...

luvnuriko...only if you say "individuals with stupidity"

LMFAO at Stephenv!!!

High five, dude!

Needs the DFAD tag.

/ding fries are done

If this means that people who voluntarily stuff themselves until they're 900 pounds and then call themselves "disabled" can no longer do so, then I'm all for it.

Oh ... Bill in Washington STATE

/not my tax dollars

Shouldn't we say Individuals with Tardfarks?

Now, I'm all for being sensitive and such, but really, don't these people have better things to be doing with their time? Are these the sorts of things our tax dollars are paying for? Get with the program, legislators, there are unhappy chickens we need to be thinking about!

Where is the progress when the blind, the deaf, the crippled are all lumped under the generic heading of 'individuals with disabilities'? Blending all disabilities under one generic heading takes away from the specific problems and needs of each.

Actually, nothing in that article mentioned not using terms like 'blind' or 'deaf' anymore, and those terms will still be used. What I'm guessing the bill is mostly referring to is trying to eliminate terms like cripple and handicapped. This has become a big issue in hospitals and rehab centers.

Some of my college professors were involved in rehabilitation engineering and I took a short class on it.
Currently, the accepted terminology is to refer to the injury or condition a person has as a 'pathology', since it does fit the definition of a pathology. The pathology causes an 'impairment' and if the impairment is severe or a life-long issue, such as paraplegia, then it is referred to as a disability.
Hospitals no longer use the term 'handicap' because of its historically negative connotation. It is only used in the most extreme cases were no treatment may be possible.

The only real possible cost problems of this bill would be whether all previously printed documents in records would have to be re-written to match the new language. Changing the wording of laws would take some time, but wouldn't be too expensive. As long as they don't ask all Handicapped parking signs to be reprinted as "Parking for individuals with disabilities" there shouldn't be a huge cost issue with this

So for example, the article refers to:

Members of the Self-Advocates in Leadership (SAIL) Coalition

This would become:

Individuals with Membership in the Self-Advocates in Leadership (SAIL) Coalition

???

I didn't know Bill O'Reily was from WA State.

From now on, I am referring to them as tards

I know of a woman that is on disability because she had a stroke from doing too much blow. Should go to jail cause she works on the side and probably on her back.

I don't see the big deal. When you're already in a tailspin, scratching the paint job doesn't really matter. All in all you were, all just bricks in the wall.

The constitutional rights of individuals has already been trampled to death, trying to save the rights of other individuals...

/wish people had better things to do with their obvious surplus of time

Note in passing:

In Houston, we have "The Center for the Mentally Retarded" and no one has ever bothered to change the name

Why not just call them citizens?
Then anyone who is offended can GTFO.

We bid welcome to our newspeak overlords.

"Oh, and Dude? I believe the preferred nomenclature is Asian-American...."

In Houston, we have "The Center for the Mentally Retarded" and no one has ever bothered to change the name

that's because it is still a center for the mentally retarded. i don't see a problem with this.

This proves once and for all that politicians are a bunch of farking retards group of people who are differently abled.

Wobbly bobs?

Differently enabled?

Speshal?

As a quad in a wheelchair here on fark, can I be the first to say that I hate political correctness. I farking hate it with a passion. It is total bullshiat. Society has become so pvssified. No, I'm not special, no I'm not challenged!
I work, I study, I drink, smoke, party, have sex, want the same things/goals in life like anyone else. Then again I'm not your typical cripple anyway.

/political incorrect, right wing quad.

To attempt to quote Samuel L. Jackson, although it will be censored:
"ENGLISH MOTHERfarkER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?"

In English, we put adjectives before nouns.
If people don't like that maybe they should go to France or something, instead of trying to screw with the English language.

ahector

that's because it is still a center for the mentally retarded. i don't see a problem with this.

Well, I'm just bringing up the contrast with Washington, where it would probably be called "Center for the collective meeting of individuals facing congnitive challenges", for dignity's sake, natch.

I suppose we're now called "Individuals who Fark"?

/a Farker no longer

Oh, and ranold: SALUTE

Would the bill rename quad-amputee swimmers Bob?
Or one legged female amputees Eileen?

/My ticket's already punched.

"Our society is getting more progressive.."

Just you wait for the coming oil depression, lady. Don't you read Fark?

What was wrong with mentally retarded?

What's degrading about physically handicapped? If you don't have use of your legs; aren't you?

I still call the person who brings the mail the postman. I don't mean to discriminate. What next??? "Individual who distributes and delivers parcels or letters to other individuals who reside at the designated structure?????????"

/^%$%#$@#%$%^

I am moron. I am in stait leguslaychure. I am agree with new way word talk say. Me am induhvidjule wif spayshul abillytees. Me spend tax muny for this grate plan. Vote me in Novvembur!

Wasn't it George Carlin who said that the idea behind this is if you can change the name of the condition, you have somehow changed the condition? These people are bullsh*tting themselves.

"Also, crippled people are crippled, they're not differently-abled. If you insist on using tortured language like differently-abled, then you must include all of us. We're all differently-abled. You can do things I can't do; I can do things you can't do. I can pick my nose with my thumb, and I can switch hands while masturbating and gain a stroke. We're all differently-abled. Crippled people are simply crippled. It's a perfectly honorable word. There is no shame in it. It's in the Bible: "Jesus healed the cripples." He didn't engage in rehabilitative strategies for the physically disadvantaged."

"Or one legged female amputees Eileen?"

Or their Asian cousins in a similar situation Irene?

/window seat

Why don't we just make up a name like "the BlarfSparg" for the disabled? That way people's widdle self esteems won't be damaged by even having the word "disability" associated with them.

I'd hate to see if the United Negro College Fund or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People came to town.