Does anyone else ever have a tuff time keeping up with what is the correct thing to call folks?

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I mean you cannot say one is retarded... fine... now I am being told mentally handicapped is insulting. Cant call folks blacks or african americans etc... Seems like what is "Acceptable" is changing every day. I bear no group animosity or malice but holy hannah... I just cant keep up with whats insulting and whats not anymore.

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Well really this comes down to having a perception of it all that goes beyond the "right" way to say things. You stay a step ahead of society then you understand better how to handle such things. Me personally call everyone a "person" no matter what orgin, disablities, or social stigma you want to throw at them, but saying something like that might make you assume that I don't think you have that sort of social understanding, which obvious you do. My point is simple getting past giving them any other labels. But your right that our social inability to see the world in a more intellegent light has us scrambling to come up with new ways to define it "morally" with in our ignorant societies social perception of things. So its a bit of a rrrr situation I know, but you don't have to play the game anyways, if you don't want, is my point....