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Yes, calling someone ‘mentally disabled’ causes real harm

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Donald Trump has repeatedly called Kamala Harris and others “low IQ” and called Jewish voters as “fools” LZ Granderson : Demeaning language about intelligence is a bipartisan political campaign staple.

Granderson says intelligence has always been defined in different ways by different societies.

He says intelligence was used to “prove” the inferiority of anyone whose behaviors, ways of talking and even ways of thinking threatened the social order.

In the early 20th century , women with low IQs or mentally disabled were sterilized and put into unhygienic institutions.

The U.S. does not have an educational system in which people like my daughter can learn with neurotypical kids.

Words are powerful: They can either broaden perspectives of the world or reinforce limiting ideologies that perpetuate oppression.

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