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अक्षर - Akshar's avatar

Thomas Sowell does peddle some nonsense from time to time. I remember him saying TSA is the reason why air travel is safe.

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Randolph Carter's avatar

I think the word "retarded" didn't carry the connotations it does today in 1911 - if I remember correctly, it was the first step on the euphemism treadmill to refer to children who were developmentally delayed in any way as something other than (clinical) moron, imbecile, idiot, etc.

But that's a pretty tangential objection, thanks for an interesting post!

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