Here’s an article on the Freelance Writing Jobs blog on “Freelancing with a Disability” that looks interesting. It’s outside my expertise but makes sense to me.
Don’t treat your readers like children
In an alarming development, the US National Archives has slapped warnings of “harmful language” on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. The source makes it especially disturbing; archivists should stand strongly against scaring people off from important documents.
Update: According to some sources, the National Archives stuck this warning label on all the documents in its online catalog, which is sloppy and makes the warning useless. As an analogy, if you rate all movies R, you might as well rate none of them R.
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