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Little people call for FCC to ban 'midget'

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Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.

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Walt Disney

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What about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
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When I see complaints like this, it reassures me that our culture is doing pretty good. If the aggrieved have to search this far down the list to discover their next crusade, then we're doing OK.
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They can't ban the word "midget!" How would people on TV ever refer to Al Franken again? "Marxist dwarf" is too nuanced and just doesn't have the same clarity as "mental midget."
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Are there any little people reading this thread who want to post their feelings about this? When I was in school, we were taught that a midget was a little person whose proportions were similar to that of more normal sized people, while a dwarf had arms/legs that were proportionally shorter than average expected for their height.

In that sense, these terms more precise than "little person", I didn't know there were negative connotations associated with them.
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Oh, for God's sake.

Midget, midget midget.

Turn the T.V. off if it offends you.
R U Kiddin

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I believe this is small thinking.
R U Kiddin

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Walt Disney wrote:
What about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Walt,

Dwarf is the medical and preferred name by midgets.

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Better do what they say lest you get picketed by the lollipop guild!
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"vertically challenged" is the politically correct term

“it takes a lot to laugh...”

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Go away money lawsuits are looming on the horizon, mental cruely and anguish will rule the day! What is next, banning basketball because the "little people" are not picked for teams?

“it takes a lot to laugh...”

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that should read, cruelty.
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I think they will come up short on this one.......
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Baby boomers

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Baby Boomers like to pretend politically convenient inferiority complexes somehow over-ride the 1st Amendment.

It reads pretty clear to me "Congress shall pass no laws"
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R U Kiddin wrote:
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Walt,
Dwarf is the medical and preferred name by midgets.
You are right. Dwarf is the proper medical term, while midget is the non-proper term used to discribe a dwarf that is of normal proportians.

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Angry elves! Does Santa know you're here?
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Baby boomers wrote:
Baby Boomers like to pretend politically convenient inferiority complexes somehow over-ride the 1st Amendment.
It reads pretty clear to me "Congress shall pass no laws"
Hey, enough with the offensive generalizations! I'm a baby boomer (b. 1962) and I exercise my 1st amendment right to insult frequently and liberally, you ****ing *******s.
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The thing is that midget is not used in a hateful or meen way. it is just a word that describes a specific type of dwarf.
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Went to high school with a "midget" only calling him that because that was the '70's. He seemed ok with that but it was only the '70s so we were not yet sensitized to the great harm we were doing by being politically incorrect.

Ths guy was a personality dynamo! He was smart, well-liked, outgoing, quick-witted and the real deal.

In gym class, in the locker room, he jokingly called himself "The Little Man With The Big Deal"

I predict that, on this web site comment section, someone will call people who are midgets victims. The perpatrators will be conservatives and the rescuetrs will be liberals and or journalists.
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Don't forget what the enraged shrimps did to that city in "The Terror of Tiny Town!"
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