Reply #13: Interesting how many people here have a problem with calling a group of people

[csziggy]

By the name they prefer. I think most here would object calling Black Americans "Negroes" or any of the terms currently considered less polite or politically correct. But I remember when that or the other "N" word were the generally accepted terms. It took a lot of effort on the part of the African-American community to have that term or "Black" used instead.

But if little people prefer that term over "midget" or "dwarf" - both terms which carry a lot of negative connotations - all they get here is derision and insults. What does it cost any of us so-called progressives to have the respect to use the term preferred by the group it refers to?

If we are not willing to do that, let's go back to all the old negatively loaded, often insulting terms for every minority, ethnic, and outside the "normal" group there is and eliminate all respect for each other. It just goes with the general trend, at least.