Assertion: mute | /r/ObjectUse | used pejorative
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text: Ward3001 claims that deaf-mute is a pejorative yet provides, a term used to denote disdain on the part of the speaker onto the subject, but there has been no evidence that deaf-mute has been used a pejorative only that the Deaf perceive it as such (conflating deaf-mute and deaf-dumb doesn't suffice as the pairing is archaic and the word dumb is widely known as a pejorative while mute remains generally not value-laden).
text: Could deaf-mute be used as a pejorative?