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Yes, calling someone ‘mentally disabled’ causes real harm

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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    5% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : These classrooms show how something as “simple” as an IQ test – something as innocuous as a label – can end up sentencing the country’s children to lives of segregation and social oppression.
25% : And on a Fox Nation program on Sept. 30, 2024 hosted by Kellyanne Conway, Trump called Walz “a total moron.”
23% : People either agree with Trump or laugh along with Jost, not thinking about what it means to be called “low IQ,” “mentally impaired” or an “idiot.”
21% : In an attempt to fire back, “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update host Colin Jost quipped that “I cannot believe Trump admitted he lost the debate to a mentally disabled person,” repeating the same ableist premise.
18% : In a rally on Sept. 29, 2024, in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Trump told supporters that “Joe Biden became mentally impaired.
5% : Harold Myerson of The American Prospect refers to Trump as a “blithering idiot,” and political cartoons paint Trump as akin to a buffoon.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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