Disability

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The Disabling Society

3 Feb 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Mumriken

Before going into the main discussion, I just want to clarify some terminology. In general discussions, we tend to use the terms "impairment" and "disability" interchangeably. However, there is a very important semantic difference between these two....

The emperor's new clothes, or "newspeak"

2 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Mumriken

Many seem to believe that if we only use another word for something derogatory, it will be much less so. We have had this development with words like "cleaning staff" who are now called "sanitary technicians", still doing the same very important work...