Originally Posted by bruce19

I understand your sensitivity to language and in fact have been a proponent of the individual rather than the disability labeling for many years. However, I was using the term in the context of the era in which it was common. And, back in the day that's exactly what it was called. The word itself is accepted language and does not solely refer to people. You may have heard of timing in an engine being ********? FWIW, I am also not a proponent of editing the "N word" out of Mark Twain's works. It's about context.