'Mentally Retarded' a Banned Phrase

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Moneybags said:

badgenome said:
I can understand why they do it, but it always strikes me as silly. As soon as you change the preferred word, the new word will become just as abused and mocked because the people themselves are the objects of scorn.

There is actually a word that describes this very cycle. Anyone Know it off the top of your heads?

Euphemism-treadmill.  but its not totaly correct, we talk about the natural reaction of sane people if they are confronted with PC-Newspeak... they want to clean how we speak, but they are to stupid too understand 1984.  poor Genderstudies majors...