The word originates as far back as 1426. I just find it crazy that it’s the only one considered a perjorative. Idiot, stupid, moron… All acceptable, and all have similar origins of being medical terms used to describe persons with impaired cognitive abilities that are now exclusively used as insults.
Wait, it was used in reference to the killing if the intellectually disabled in Nazi Germany? I thought the use of that term started in the sixties
The word originates as far back as 1426. I just find it crazy that it’s the only one considered a perjorative. Idiot, stupid, moron… All acceptable, and all have similar origins of being medical terms used to describe persons with impaired cognitive abilities that are now exclusively used as insults.