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What do you think about politically correct signs for disabled?

Asked by troubleinharlem (7991points) October 11th, 2010

I saw some people taking down a “deaf children” sign in a neighborhood while I was riding my bike yesterday. They replaced it with a “hearing impaired children” sign… I asked them why, and they said that it was because people apparently got offended that the deaf children were called deaf children.

Does it really matter that much? Are there that many differences in saying “handicapped children”, “disabled children”, “visually impaired crossing”, with other things?

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