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[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 117 points 1 month ago

How old are they that they called labeled as ableist? This would not have happened in 2000s elementary

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 20 points 1 month ago

Hm.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ableist&year_start=1990&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

They could be in 4th grade in 2010, and be 25 now posting this. I could also believe that elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language that's just starting to be used for a new type of friendly inclusiveness in 2000.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language

Elementary school teachers are also more likely to crack down on any sort of insulting language in general. I remember when I was a kid in the 4th grade, our teacher would punish us for asking, "So?" So was short for 'So what?' At the time it was (sometimes properly, give me a break, Mrs. H) a way to insultingly say that someone else's statement was meaningless.

It wasn't because it was ableist, or anything else you could point a finger to except insulting, and teachers head that sort of interaction off early.

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