MCFCMegs
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Seeing this post I just felt I had to comment.
Yes everyone is right the terms idiot. idiot, imbecile idiot are everyday words but can also be viewed as offensive.
I work with people who have learning disablities and downsyndrome and find the terms offensive when used in a derogatory manner, I feel it puts down the very people we are trying to empower.
If you look into the history of these words they are terms that were used to clasify people when they were insitutionalised some 50 plus years ago, the health professionals labelled people according to the degree of their disability, so as someone previously said an idiot would be considered more intelligent than an imbecile, words such as sub normal and serverely subormal were also used, and mongul. People were treated according to their label and discriminated against, such as service users named high grade and low grade and the high grade would look down on low grade. It's all really sad and the history of it all is why people such as myself find the words offensive.
I feel using such terms to call tevez keep such labells in use and keep the ethos of looking down of such people .... likening tevez to someone with downsyndrome is an insult to tevez but the other hand we are still looking down on people who have downsyndrome and people who have learning disabilities.
If you dont like tevez call him a rat or something lol.
I personally still want tevez at city, I think when e wants to be he is an ace player, scored us many goals last season and think he made a mistake refusing to play. He wanted be on from the start of the munich match and was making a point. I'm disappointed with the guy but think we should give him another chance. Just think without him and his efforts we wouldn't have the FA cup.
Yes everyone is right the terms idiot. idiot, imbecile idiot are everyday words but can also be viewed as offensive.
I work with people who have learning disablities and downsyndrome and find the terms offensive when used in a derogatory manner, I feel it puts down the very people we are trying to empower.
If you look into the history of these words they are terms that were used to clasify people when they were insitutionalised some 50 plus years ago, the health professionals labelled people according to the degree of their disability, so as someone previously said an idiot would be considered more intelligent than an imbecile, words such as sub normal and serverely subormal were also used, and mongul. People were treated according to their label and discriminated against, such as service users named high grade and low grade and the high grade would look down on low grade. It's all really sad and the history of it all is why people such as myself find the words offensive.
I feel using such terms to call tevez keep such labells in use and keep the ethos of looking down of such people .... likening tevez to someone with downsyndrome is an insult to tevez but the other hand we are still looking down on people who have downsyndrome and people who have learning disabilities.
If you dont like tevez call him a rat or something lol.
I personally still want tevez at city, I think when e wants to be he is an ace player, scored us many goals last season and think he made a mistake refusing to play. He wanted be on from the start of the munich match and was making a point. I'm disappointed with the guy but think we should give him another chance. Just think without him and his efforts we wouldn't have the FA cup.