A group called Little People of America has called upon the Federal Communications Commission to ban the word "midget" from being used on broadcast television, insisting that it is as offensive as most racial slurs. Their anger was particularly directed towards a recent episode of The Celebrity Apprentice, in which Joan Rivers' team created a detergent ad entitled "Jesse James and the Midgets".
Some people have been responding to this with a reaction of "That's not offensive!" But how the hell can an outsider tell a specific group that a particular word isn't derogatory? It's like straight people trying to tell us that "faggot" isn't offensive (regardless of your feelings on the word). Or white people justifying that the n-word is perfectly okay. It just doesn't work!
– Dewitt
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I have to say, both terms midget and little person are horrendously offensive. Little person? I would kill someone if I was vertically challenged and got called that.
That’s what they want to be called though, CT. They recognize the fact that hey, they are smaller than the rest of us. They don’t feel that being called ‘little’ is demeaning, because otherwise it’d be kinda a denial thing. It’s only in reference to physical size, not anything else about them.
Whatever they want to be called is fine by me. I still don’t get it, though. “Little person” sounds more offensive to me than “midget.” I mean, children are little people; only midgets are midgets. Whatever, though, I’ll play by the rules. This same-sex-interested Caucasian-American has no problem with the vertically challenged.
If “faggot” and n-word are banned, “midget” should be as well.
The only reason why they are making a sink is for money.
Where does it stop with the censorship? Pretty soon, saying just ANYTHING to anyone will be deemed as “offensive”. The people in this country have gotten so thin skinned it’s sickening.