Now that's a new one lol. 

Barb K1EIR

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Dresser
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:41 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: PC BS!

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.
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> Political correctness has gone way too far for my liking.
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> Ian, VK3vin
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> 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
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>>----- 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?
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>>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.
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>>Then, we got into trouble when we used terms like "visually or
>>physically
>>challenged", because what happens if the person fails the
>>challenge!
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>>So, I bravely said "Why don't we just use terms like blind, deaf,
>>partially
>>deaf, etc., and be done with the semantics.
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>>In other words, call it like it is, and go on with your life.
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>>That didn't go over so well.  (big smile)
>>
>>Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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>>----- 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
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>>I never understood this "visually challenged" junk.  Give me a
>>break!!!!
>>   No vision to it.
>>  73
>>  Butch
>>  WA0VJR
>>  Node 3148
>>  Wallace, ks.
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>>  On Fri, 24 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
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>>  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.
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