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The Inclusive Communications Task Force at Colorado has created an Inclusive Language Guide. Very helpfully they have listed all the naughty words that you are not allowed to use anymore.

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Your mission should you choose to accept it is to write a paragraph using as many of these forbidden words as possible.

The funnier the better.

  1. Addicted
  2. American
  3. Basket Case
  4. Birth Defect
  5. The Blind / The Deaf / Eye for an Eye
  6. Cake Walk/Takes the cake
  7. Colored
  8. CP victim / Spastic / Spaz Crazy / Nuts / Maniac / Lunatic /
  9. Insane / Deranged / Psycho /Demented/ Depressed / OCD
  10. Dumb / Mute
  11. Dwarf / Midget
  12. Eenie meenie miney moe
  13. Epileptic
  14. Eskimo
  15. Freshman
  16. Ghetto / Barrio
  17. Gyp / Gip
  18. Handicapped / Disabled / Crippled /
  19. Suffers from, Afflicted with, Victim of / Invalid / Lame / Deformed
  20. Handicap parking
  21. He or She
  22. Ladies and Gentlemen
  23. Hip hip hooray!
  24. Hispanic
  25. Hold Down the Fort / Defend the Fort
  26. Homosexual
  27. Illegal immigrant / alien
  28. Indian
  29. Lame / Retarded / Stupid / Slow Learner / Moron / Idiot / Imbecile /
  30. Down’s person
  31. Long time no see
  32. Man the Booth / Mankind/ Manmade
  33. You Guys
  34. Policeman / Fireman / Chairman
  35. Male / Female
  36. Mr. / Mrs. / Ms.
  37. No Can Do
  38. Normal Person
  39. Oriental
  40. Paraplegic / Quadriplegic
  41. Paddy Wagon
  42. Peanut Gallery
  43. Pow Wow
  44. “Preferred” Pronouns
  45. Rule of Thumb
  46. Senile / Demented
  47. Sold down the river
  48. Starving / I’m Starving / I’m Broke
  49. Straight
  50. The Grandfather Clause /Grandfathered In
  51. The itis / Food Coma
  52. Thug
  53. Transgendered
  54. Tribe / Spirit Animal
  55. Uppity
  56. War / Go to War / At War / War Zone/ Battle
  57. Wheelchair bound, confined or restricted to a wheelchair

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