Such language! Okay, here’s one that will likely offend the millennials for dated verbiage in reprint. George Carlin famously derided the use of today’s soft language. The subjective term being “learning disabled” as one of several replacements for retarded or imbecile, which have become highly-offensive slurs. Yet, the softening of a severe mental condition is nothing new. The eugenics clip to the left is from the late 1920s.
Published in the Gainesville Times, September 20, 1988, Prof. Taylor enters the unceasing debate over some tough cases that plague society, and the logical fallacies that surround them.
