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Originally Posted by DNSB
OTOH, we should realize that marginalized does not mean what it used to mean. The latest list of marginalized groups that I ran across included: - GLBTQQIAPTS
- Senior citizens
- Persons living in poverty
- The homeless
- Racial/Cultural minorities
- Military combat veterans
- Persons of below average intelligence
- Hearing, visually, and physically challenged persons
- Persons with a serious and persistent mental illness
- Persons with cognitive impairments
- Gamblers
- Substance abusers
- Autism spectrum persons
- Gifted and talented persons
- Persons with disfigurements
- Sex offenders
- Felons
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I don't know where you got this list; a search does't find it anywhere for me. And over a third of it can be condensed into one listing, "disabled people". Several of the others are very obviously not generally accepted.
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BTW, speaking of silly terms, I've adapted to LGBTQ and LGBTQ+ but we are now told to use GLBTQQIAPTS. Why not the simpler GSM (gender and sexuality minorities) instead of the continually expanding GLBTQ etc. etc.?
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I'm getting exactly nine hits for GLBTQQIAPTS, so no, this is not in common use and not what "we are told to use" now. The common terms I see are LGBTQIA+, and the more pronounceable QUILTBAG.