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On May 24, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Steve Dresser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> When people start using phrases like "sight impaired," I tell them I prefer 
> to think of myself as "darkness enabled."
> 
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Westerland" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 19:08
> Subject: Re: PC BS!
> 
> 
>> Jim and Tom, fully agree.  I also use blind and say, when people ask
>> me how long I have been sight impaired that there has never been any
>> sight to be impaired.
>> 
>> Political correctness has gone way too far for my liking.
>> 
>> 
>> Ian, VK3vin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 05:20 AM 25/05/2013, you wrote:
>>> I'm with you Tom.  Enough of this politically correct BS! Blind
>>> is blind, forget sight impaired.  I was once being deposed by an
>>> attorney who had no sense of humor far as I could tell.  At one
>>> point he asked me, "Have you been blind all of your life?" I said
>>> no, I'm not dead yet and just sat quietly.  There was a rather
>>> long and awkward silence after which he kind of stammered
>>> something like um well, how long have you been um er sight
>>> impaired? Jim WA6EKS
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Date sent: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:04:40 -0400
>>> Subject: Re: accessible radio
>>> 
>>> Did I ever tell you guys that I caught a lot of grief once when
>>> doing a
>>> presentation at a Society For Disability Studies conference, and
>>> we got into
>>> a discussion of politically correct terminology?
>>> 
>>> We were argued with when we used the term "disabled", because it
>>> sounded
>>> like you should be taken out to a pasture and shot, like an old
>>> disabled
>>> animal.
>>> 
>>> Then, we got into trouble when we used terms like "visually or
>>> physically
>>> challenged", because what happens if the person fails the
>>> challenge!
>>> 
>>> So, I bravely said "Why don't we just use terms like blind, deaf,
>>> partially
>>> deaf, etc., and be done with the semantics.
>>> 
>>> In other words, call it like it is, and go on with your life.
>>> 
>>> That didn't go over so well.  (big smile)
>>> 
>>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 2:37 PM
>>> Subject: Re: accessible radio
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I never understood this "visually challenged" junk.  Give me a
>>> break!!!!
>>>  No vision to it.
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>>> 
>>> Butch, that's true, but it still brings home the point.
>>> blindness sucks,
>>> but its not a death sentence; which is what most newly blinded
>>> people
>>> think
>>> it is.  I am purposely using the B word here, because their is a
>>> movement
>>> to
>>> avoid the word.  Forbidden words gain emence power just by being
>>> forbidden.
>>> Its a word and if you use it on a tax form, it can be used in
>>> conversation.
>>