Hannu Ikonen, MD on Nostr: i certainly will go ahead and apologize for using the word moron flippantly. I had ...
i certainly will go ahead and apologize for using the word moron flippantly.
I had always thought it associated with ancient greek "moros" and colloquially as akin to deliberately ignorant, rather than its apparent weaponized legacy in the American Eugenics movement.
... Today I learned. And will do better.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/10/267561895/it-took-a-eugenicist-to-come-up-with-moron
I had always thought it associated with ancient greek "moros" and colloquially as akin to deliberately ignorant, rather than its apparent weaponized legacy in the American Eugenics movement.
... Today I learned. And will do better.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/10/267561895/it-took-a-eugenicist-to-come-up-with-moron