Sunday, January 13, 2008

How backwards Ohio is

I guess I'd share with you some things I ran across recently, that will give you an idea why Ohio is so screwed up when it comes to people with disabilities.

Just recently, when flipping through recently passed Ohio state laws I noticed that they recently removed the words "lunatic" and "imbecile" from several places in the Ohio state code, replacing them with more modern terms.

Well, I do applaud the effort to get something well overdo done, let's examine how overdue it is.

Those words went out of medical use long before even I was born. Additionally, decades ago, they were deemed hate speech by the courts.

Somehow somebody wasn't paying much attention for the past few decades.

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