Warwick Davis Speaks out About the Word 'Midget'

The word 'midget' means something different, depending who you are or where you come from. Dictionary definitions are many and varied. However, one thing is certain about the word 'midget' - its use is particularly offensive to the majority of little people and their families in the UK and can cause distress, even when it wasn't meant as a derogatory term.

Rebecca Nuttall from Little People UK says:

Little People of America have been very successful in educating about the word in North America , so much so that it is now referred to as 'the M word' and its wider use is deemed to be unacceptable.

Actor Warwick Davis, patron of Little People UK, commented:

The use of the word 'midget' is prevalent in social media too. Facebook hosts an abundance of pages that ridicule people with dwarfism in various ways under the general heading 'midget'. Companies such as Facebook, with their vast resources, should be held responsible and accountable for the offensive material they allow to be published.

http://www.littlepeopleuk.org/