If you don’t read this out loud in the Rod Sterling voice the HUAC sends an FBI kill team to your location
I also love the juxtaposition of the mythological Americana artwork with headlines like “What Shall We Do about Communist Teachers?”
“How the mind works”. Can’t believe how bad that sentence is. Sends shivers down my spine.
“Retarded” was the accepted clinical term at the time.
The word can still be used in it’s used, you shouldn’t use it against people who have down syndrome etc. It also means to have slowed down or delayed thoughts or ideas. Marx used it. It was one of the first words banned. I used to get very offended by the word, because people used to laugh at disabled people and use the word. I’d laugh as well because I used to just be infected by laughter. It’s the laugh track effect, when I met people who genuinely laughed at disabled people and that word it made me feel sick, I never wanted to ban the word though. Banning words is bad. It helps bad people hide bad intentions and gives people a fake morale shield to hide behind. People tried to tell me the slippery slope argument was a logical fallacy when I pointed it out. Not using bad words is fine banning people for using them isn’t.
I remember when people started using the n word, and I was just this stupid nerd who said it was bad. The r word offends me less when used correctly. The only reason some fascists care about down syndrome and the r word is because they have it in their family see Shane Gillis
So was “Gay Bowl Syndrome”.
If coach would’ve put me in, we would’ve gone to state. No doubt in my mind.
Lol I think you mean “bowel” mate, though I think we can all agree we love gay bowls too.
I think they’re speaking specifically about the noble game of gay bowling.
A bit like “venereal disease”
I’m not familiar, why was that term phased out?
VD had a moral failure connotation because of limited colloquial knowledge (and ofc religion). Since VD was viewed as a moral failure and not medical necessity people weren’t getting medical attention as the diagnosis was shameful. So there was a deliberate effort to switch to STDs. More recently the switch is to STIs to include non-symptomatic infections.
I know someone that VD Jance from a couch.
Saturday Evening Post
It will never stop being funny to me that their most revered cover image,
, is a guy protesting against funding public schools. It’s Hitler Monthly.I’m gonna reveal myself as stupid once more and admit I always thought that was supposed to be a modern Abe Lincoln in like 70s attire
Maybe they used that on purpose? Idk
Find a guy like Lincoln the american people respect him!
