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Write a substitute word or phrase that communicates a more positive attitude toward people who have been oppressed.  Place the negative terms, your new positive terms, and ans

Directions: Write a substitute word or phrase that communicates a more positive attitude toward people who have been oppressed.  Place the negative terms, your new positive terms, and answers to the follow-up questions in the Learning Activity.  I did #1 as an example for you to see. 

  1. In what situations are you not sure of how to refer to people who have been oppressed?
  2. How might we encourage others to use sensitive terminology?
  3. What did you learn the most from the readings and from this assignment

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  1. a special kid     a kid with a disability 
  2. crippled
  3. bum
  4. the retarded
  5. autistic people 
  6. the blind
  7. AIDS victim
  8. the deaf
  9. a CP.
  10. those MD's
  11. wheelchair-bound
  12. dependent on crutches
  13. suffers from MS
  14. mental age of 3
  15. confined to a wheelchair
  16. stricken with epilepsy
  17. borderline retarded
  18. dummy
  19. old fart
  20. a nervous breakdown
  21. a spinal-injured man
  22. maniac
  23. crazy
  24. deaf
  25. dumb
  26. deaf-mute
  27. handicapped person 
  28. normal
  29. able-bodied
  30. a paraplegic
  31. drug abuser
  32. senile
  33. the amputee
  34. psycho
  35. lunatic
  36. moron
  37. deformed person
  38. a spina bifida child
  39. the schizophrenic
  40. a neurotic person