Adult Issues

 Racism
 Mentally Handicapped People
 Misogyny

 Racism has existed throughout human history.
 It may be defined as the hatred of one person by another -- or the belief that another person is less than human -- because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes.
 The most notorious example of racism by the
West has been slavery, particularly the enslavement of Africans in the New World
(slavery itself dates back thousands of years).

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This belief of racism was not "automatic": that is,
Africans were not originally considered inferior.
When Portuguese sailors first explored Africa in the
15th and 16th centuries, they came upon empires and cities as advanced as their own, and they considered
Africans to be serious rivals.
Over time, European powers began to plunder the continent and forcibly remove its inhabitants to work as slave laborers in new colonies across the Atlantic,
Africans came to be seen as a deficient "species," as
"savages."

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Stemmed from Latin word “Negro” and the Niger River in
Africa.
Exactly when the word “n-gger” became an offensive insult is unknown.
 However, we do know that it was already considered a huge slur in 1837 when Hosea Easton wrote The Condition of
Colored People of the United States: and the Prejudice
Exercised Towards Them.
 Easton stated that the term is used with the intent to deliberately make black people feel inferior.
 Today the word has the same connotations; it is considered one of the most hateful words in the English language.

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Many people agree that there are at least two modern definitions of the word. There is an extremely negative one and there also is another “affectionate” one used among the black community.
“N-gga” became more widely spread due to the emergence of hip-hop and rap music in the 1970s and
1980s, and thus a new movement, using “nigga” in a positive way, emerged (Judy 214).
It is an unspoken rule that black people can freely say
“n-gger”, especially in a familial way, because it expresses a common history and oppression that binds this community together.
White people, however, because they originated the word and spread the use of it in a derogatory manner, cannot use it under any circumstances.
Now, of course, this is not the view of every person.
Many believe that it should be wiped from the vocabulary of every individual, regardless of race.

 The term "mental retardation" used to be a medical diagnosis. Now it means something very negative: we use to term to tease and belittle each other.
 The shameful connotations over the last few decades are in part due to the use of "retarded" as an insult among younger people.
 This may in turn have contributed to its replacement with expressions such as "mentally challenged" or
"intellectual disability".

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 Both adults and children with mental retardation may also exhibit the following characteristics:
Delays in oral language development
Deficits in memory skills
Difficulty learning social rules
Difficulty with problem solving skills
Lack of social inhibitors.

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Misogyny means “woman-hating.”
 Terms like slut, whore, ho, tramp, trick, and tart stem from misogyny.
 Slut is a pejorative (mean) term for a person who is deemed sexually promiscuous . The term has traditionally been applied to women and is generally used as an insult or offensive term of disparagement. (N-word for women.)

 If men have several sexual partners, they are
“players” or “studs.”
 If women have several sexual partners, they are “sluts” or “tarts.”
 Why the double standard?
 Evolution
 Jealousy
 Power

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