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But why is 'abnormal' always treated as a negative?

This is one thing I don't get about modern woke politics. We are supposed to be accepting of each other, but need to ignore the things we are supposed to accept.

People are different, people are abnormal, why can't that be celebrated?



I don't think that abnormal is always treated as a negative - it just means out of the norm meaning the majority of the people are not included.

You can describe somebody is abnormally intelligent for example and it's a positive in this light.

But I really doubt you're gonna find a group of people that want to celebrate the idea that they are unable to see, in that context vision impairment is a negative abnormal trait.




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