23 Comments
⭠ Return to thread

Yep, I responded to a Youtube FAIR video by a psychologist and professor of psychology about the increasing fragility with which we treat clients (e.g., the university where she taught told faculty to teach students not to use the word "maladaptive" in their clinical documentation and instead to describe "helpful vs unhelpful" behaviors, etc, because of the stigmatizing nature of "maladaptive," ahem ahem the term "euphemism treadmill" coined by Stephen Pinker). In any case, I went through the convoluted process of creating a new Youtube account under an alias b/c I dared not use my real name when I commented that I agreed with the psychologist for fear that colleagues would accuse me of upholding white supremacist ideology, etc.

Expand full comment