What if calling someone stupid was a crime?

A school boy sits on a stool wearing a dunce hat.

2024-05-17  562  中等

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ARE YOU hateful enough to use the S-word? You know the one: stupid. It has been banned in schools, its use and synonyms (dumb, slow) considered “slurs” worthy of expulsion. Even its antonyms are grounds for book bans and boycotts: only a “cerebral supremacist” would have the gall to buy Elena Ferrante’s novel “My Brilliant Friend”. Instead, those wanting to be politically correct display copies of “The Calumny of IQ: Why Discrimination Against ‘D— People’ Is the Last Great Civil Rights Fight” on their coffee tables.

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