Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.
The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.
The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.
In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.
Now don't get me wrong but if we start calling them "little people" then what do we call children who we now refer to as "little people"? And if we call them little people will we then get angry letters from The SMURFS asking for us to not classify them as "little people" but something all together because Smurfs are really the "little people"? Here's an idea. How about we stop labeling people and just accept everyone for who they are!
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