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confined to a wheelchair

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2.7/10

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Source: Stanford’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI)

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Contributors treat confined to a wheelchair as mild — capable of causing offence, but not reliably so. Not many people have weighed in, so the figure may move quite a way yet. Context matters, so a term may be more or less acceptable than the number suggests.