兵庫県知事選で出たワード「野菜(vegetable)」。英語で知的障がい者という意味のスラングだった…

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なぜ『ガ●ジ』は『障がい者』と言われているのですか？何か重要な意味でもあるのですか？
Why are disabled people called “vegetables” by people? Is there a significant meaning to that?

Disabled people are not called vegetables by anyone with either a brain or a heart. It is dehumanizing and demeaning.
People, no matter their level of disability or consciousness, are human beings.

In the 1970s, the term “persistent vegetative state” (PVS) came into use to refer to a type of comatose patients with no responsiveness. Prior to that, as early as the 1800s, vegetative state had been used to describe anything from plant life (the real meaning) to a stroke patient.

In the 1920s, a “vegetative state” came to mean someone who leads a monotonous life without intellectual activity. But, it wasn’t until 1972 that “persistent vegetative state” (PVS) was coined as a diagnostic category by Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and American neurologist Fred Plum (Source below).