RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 24, 2014 at 8:22 am
(August 23, 2014 at 3:26 am)Aractus Wrote: That is just the same as labelling a Jiggaboo foetus "defective" or a Jewish foetus "defective".
No, it isn't. DS sufferers have objective metrics demonstrating lower cognitive ability. No such objective metric exists to justify the racism you're using as an analogy.
(August 23, 2014 at 5:02 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I was going to comment on this but then I thought it's better if I don't go near this can of worms! Oh yeah, you guys "handicap" is really rude. That hasn't been used since the nineties.
PC language sucks. As someone new to being disabled, albeit mildly, I don't care what someone calls me. I confess to agreeing with George Carlin in his complaints about the language being watered-down for the sake of appearances.
