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.
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.
- Addicted
- American
- Basket Case
- Birth Defect
- The Blind / The Deaf / Eye for an Eye
- Cake Walk/Takes the cake
- Colored
- CP victim / Spastic / Spaz Crazy / Nuts / Maniac / Lunatic /
- Insane / Deranged / Psycho /Demented/ Depressed / OCD
- Dumb / Mute
- Dwarf / Midget
- Eenie meenie miney moe
- Epileptic
- Eskimo
- Freshman
- Ghetto / Barrio
- Gyp / Gip
- Handicapped / Disabled / Crippled /
- Suffers from, Afflicted with, Victim of / Invalid / Lame / Deformed
- Handicap parking
- He or She
- Ladies and Gentlemen
- Hip hip hooray!
- Hispanic
- Hold Down the Fort / Defend the Fort
- Homosexual
- Illegal immigrant / alien
- Indian
- Lame / Retarded / Stupid / Slow Learner / Moron / Idiot / Imbecile /
- Down’s person
- Long time no see
- Man the Booth / Mankind/ Manmade
- You Guys
- Policeman / Fireman / Chairman
- Male / Female
- Mr. / Mrs. / Ms.
- No Can Do
- Normal Person
- Oriental
- Paraplegic / Quadriplegic
- Paddy Wagon
- Peanut Gallery
- Pow Wow
- “Preferred” Pronouns
- Rule of Thumb
- Senile / Demented
- Sold down the river
- Starving / I’m Starving / I’m Broke
- Straight
- The Grandfather Clause /Grandfathered In
- The itis / Food Coma
- Thug
- Transgendered
- Tribe / Spirit Animal
- Uppity
- War / Go to War / At War / War Zone/ Battle
- Wheelchair bound, confined or restricted to a wheelchair