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frezik@midwest.social 4 months agoVarious fields have to adapt their terms all the time. For example, “idiot”, “moron”, and “mental retardation” were all official medical terms. Then they got used as an insult, and got so bad that the medical field had to abandon them.
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Medical terms being used as an insult is a very specific (and problematic) case. And they also weren’t turned into their own opposite. They were equalized with stupidity.