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Originally Posted by Brillopad

Severe appearance deficit instead of ugly - yes real common sense that.

There were some awful words used in the past such as mongols, cretins and spastics and the use of such words was phased out, and rightly so, but handicapped and many others used today are perfectly reasonable words.

Of course people shouldn't be able to just blatantly offend people with the use of offensive words but the replacement of perfectly acceptable words such as handicapped for physically defective is sheer stupidity. Defective is a horrible word - I would rather be called physically handicapped, if disabled, than physically defective. Another word increasingly being used is 'challenged' i.e. Physically challenged which I would put on a par with 'incapable' or 'useless' which personally I find much more offensive.

I agree with everything I've left. These were basically my points throughout the thread. Nobody is taking these hyper-PC people seriously apart from the bloke in the video, and perhaps you. Severe appearance deficit seems like a joke haha. It isnt common sense to call ugly people 'severe appearance deficit' which is why the phrase never coined on, I believe the speech is a few decades old.

And yes nobody wants to blatantly offend. PC people dont want to offend, non-PC people dont want to offend, everybody inbetween do not want to offend, you just repeated my point. It is because of this that language cant be due to PC culture, language is just common sense.

You too are policing language, and you're not PC? So this entire thread is getting a bit silly. You've even made suggestions on words that other people shouldnt use, I have a feeling the bloke in the video would label you as PC, but you're not, language has nothing to do with political correctness.

if you believe as a non-PC person that there are horrible and offensive words, its because there is a common sense approach to language. it doesn't make you PC to find it offensive when people call certain groups certain words, it is just common sense not to call them it.