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I cringe every time Donald Trump uses the word "CROOKED" --- a euphemism for a physical condition--- to describe his opponent.
Trump is using the word "crooked" as a dog whistle against people with disabilities.
Trump sees the word as a way to describe people who, to him, are to be reviled and rejected, as he claims his political opponent should be reviled and rejected for being "crooked".
To Trump, people who are "crooked" are revolting, undesirable, flawed, unworthy, corrupt, no good and worthy of rejection.
Trump is using "Crooked" is a denigrating term meant to appeal purely to people's sight as a way to judge others.
This is how Trump sees people. If you're "crooked", you're automatically worthless and defective.
It reveals something about how Trump sees other people that he would choose a visually descriptive word to describe his opponent in negative light.
People with disabilities often have "crooked" limbs and if Trump finds that word useful in describing the alleged flaws and corruption of his political opponent, what is he thinking about people who are physically "crooked"?
My opinion is this is a man incapable of seeing people with disabilities. People with disabilities will become even more invisible under a Trump presidency than they are now.
Last edited by Shankapotomus; 08-29-2016 at 06:34 AM..
I don't know the origin of the term but this is the first time I have ever heard it connected to people with disabilities. To me "crooked" has never meant anything other than dishonest.
I don't know the origin of the term but this is the first time I have ever heard it connected to people with disabilities. To me "crooked" has never meant anything other than dishonest.
But "crooked" also means:
definition:
crooked
(ˈkrʊkɪd) adj 1. bent, angled or winding 2. set at an angle; not straight 3. deformed or contorted
If "crooked" has two meanings, why be deliberately provocative? Why not not just say "dishonest"?
Now liberals redefine words and intent based upon who says them. If a conservative person speaks, that's just like Hitler speaking. But if a liberal says something that seems hostile, no that's just Mother Teresa speaking.
I don't know the origin of the term but this is the first time I have ever heard it connected to people with disabilities. To me "crooked" has never meant anything other than dishonest.
Indeed. And I am a disabled person. Never been called that, or ever heard it used thus. Now "crip" and "gimp" , that's different.
I cringe every time Donald Trump uses the word "CROOKED" --- a euphemism for a physical condition--- to describe his opponent.
Trump is using the word "crooked" as a dog whistle against people with disabilities.
Trump sees the word as a way to describe people who, to him, are to be reviled and rejected, as he claims his political opponent should be reviled and rejected for being "crooked".
To Trump, people who are "crooked" are revolting, undesirable, flawed, unworthy, corrupt, no good and worthy of rejection.
Trump is using "Crooked" is a denigrating term meant to appeal purely to people's sight as a way to judge others.
This is how Trump sees people. If you're "crooked", you're automatically worthless and defective.
It reveals something about how Trump sees other people that he would choose a visually descriptive word to describe his opponent in negative light.
People with disabilities often have "crooked" limbs and if Trump finds that word useful in describing the alleged flaws and corruption of his political opponent, what is he thinking about people who are physically "crooked"?
My opinion is this is a man incapable of seeing people with disabilities. People with disabilities will become even more invisible under a Trump presidency than they are now.
With this kind of logic one can go on to gather that since Hillary doesn't "bake cookies for her man" that she tosses little children into the oven just like in the fairy tale, much as the premise of this thread is.
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