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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mirzabah" data-source="post: 855993" data-attributes="member: 3211">There's a pretty big difference between dissing someone for using epithet like "down syndrome infected" and shoving political correctness down their throats.Likewise, there is a huge difference between "politics" and "political correctness". They might share a word root, but politics has nothing to do with political correctness, but I'm guessing that you knew that already and are being deliberately obtuse <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />For the record, I am very much against the brand of political correctness that insists on increasingly elaborate circumlocations to avoid acknowledging that some people are to varying degrees deaf, mute, blind, lame, or (yes) mentally retarded. Those are all perfectly good, serviceable words and it is only when they are used in an insulting fashion that they become problematical. If you choose a different label, then the same idiots that used the old labels insultingly will simply switch to the new ones.I am, however, for the kind of political correctness that says we shouldn't marginalise, insult or otherwise disrespect those that fall into the above categories.Cheers,Mirzabah.</blockquote>