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[Audience Member] I want to

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get back to the issue of

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why it's not a matter of

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political correctness –

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people-first language –

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and why it's important.

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What the theoretical

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underpinnings for it are,

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so we can be reminded of that.

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I mean, I get why an editor

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is going to want to do

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a shorter headline.

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But what I do think is when we...

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when we take those short cuts,

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we lose an opportunity to

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educate the broader public

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for people who just look at

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the headline, and that is

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that whenever we emphasize

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it's a disability,

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a disabled person instead of

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a person with a disability,

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what you're doing is

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you're saying they’re the Other.

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Not meaning to be bad. I get it.

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But it's... it's a lost opportunity,

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because when we have these

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people be the Other,

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then they're over there,

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and us normal people

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are over here.

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And that's what I think

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is the danger of it.

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So I want to keep that in mind

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and just... and realize that it’s

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always an opportunity to

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make people be people first and be...

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and have a chance to realize

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for the public that we're

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all in this together.