Actually, yes, I do have a dwarf friend and you don’t really want to know her opinion of people calling her a midget. Trust me.
So you’re telling me he was not a dwarf, just way way shorter than the average person? And there’s usually a reason for that.
And its rather common knowledge that the dwarf community does not like the term midget. I didn’t just pull that out of my ass or something. But, of course, that doesn’t mean that EVERY SINGLE dwarf objects to the term. There are outliers in any group of human beings.
So, just go ahead and keep on calling them midgets. Doesn’t bother me. Its your life. Live it any way you please.
Oh look! Its even part of their official literature. Here’s their view on the M word.
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http://www.lpaonline.org/the-m-word
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They actually consider it a “slur”. But they are realistic enough to realize that:
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” Though we can’t control what people say and what content is broadcast, working together, we can ensure that people understand the impact of what they say and what they broadcast.”
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As I said, go ahead and call them whatever you please. Its not as if they’re really entitled to any choice in the matter because, after all, they don’t speak for EVERY SINGLE person of short stature. So, what do they know anyhow, right?