Nut Jobs, Nut Cases & Brazil Nuts: Eradicating Derogatory Terms

In a Telegraph headline on Monday 14th Sept. Assistant editor Jeremy Warner published a piece on the British Labour Party's new leader and his choice of John McDonnell in his opposition 'cabinet', entitled "Corbyn has just appointed a nutjob as shadow chancellor". The piece came in for rightful criticism with many believing the use of the term 'nutjob' to be offensive, generating complaints that it was being derogatory of the mentally ill. Jeremy Warner himself took to Twitter to try to justify his choice of words:

Source: Disabled World - September 24, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Discrimination Source Type: news