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]
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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.