(Florida) Activists want state to end use of word 'retard'

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43. the words, "Idiot" and "Moron" were originally medical terms for different gradations

of mental disability.

In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[9] The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[10][11] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot



So, is anyone talking about the word "douche-bag"???? Ohhhhh, no one seems to have a problem with that one, eh? Well, a lot of women don't like it, but hey, who cares what they think.