We read:
"The Missouri Planning Council for Developmental Disabilities wants to removed the word "handicapped" from signs indicating parking spaces for the disabled. Susan Pritchard-Green heads the council. She says the word "handicapped" is derogatory and insulting for people with disabilities.
Instead, she says she'd like to see the spaces marked in blue to be known simply as "accessible parking." The council and other advocacy groups say they'll push for legislation to change the language of the state law governing the parking signs. Pritchard-Green says some other states have already made the change.
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Good to know that the parking is accessible. But accessible by whom? Can I access it? If I am ever visting in those parts I will be pleased to find the parking so accessible.
"Crippled" people became "disabled", then "handicapped". I wonder what the next version will be? "Special", I guess.
Could get confusing, though. Australia used to have "special" schools for dummies but that term got to be on the nose after a while when people found out what was "special" about them. Such schools then became "opportunity" schools and I am not sure what they are now. I think they have all been abolished and the dummies sent into ordinary schools, where they don't get treatment tailored to their needs but do disrupt learning for others. That old "all men are equal" gospel sure can get pernicious. What you expect of a false gospel, of course.
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