Probably best to nix that word from your vocabulary - it’s derived from pre-genetics race theory and was one of the primary groupings along with “Caucasoid” and “Negroid”. It was basically exclusively used to refer to people who were considered “lesser than”, and that racism carried forward into it being used as a descriptor for people with Down syndrome.
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Probably best to nix that word from your vocabulary - it’s derived from pre-genetics race theory and was one of the primary groupings along with “Caucasoid” and “Negroid”. It was basically exclusively used to refer to people who were considered “lesser than”, and that racism carried forward into it being used as a descriptor for people with Down syndrome.