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From: cmfaltz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christine Marie Faltz)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: why blink?
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Date: 10 May 91 15:57:32 GMT
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To: William Wilson

	Apparently not all that good of a head start, as you do not see
the corollaries to your arguments.  First of all, as you say, most
people do not know of the term 'blink'.  Therefore, it is much easier to
get it out of the language as referring to persons who are blind, rather
than have to attempt the ridiculous task of telling many people about
something they already don't know.  On the other hand, if blind people
beginusing the word frequently to refer to one another, it will
gradually gain popularity, and will become as common as other terms.
Are you people so ashamed of calling yourselves "blind" that you'll
accept another word from the English language, which apparently has no
meaningful tenets.
	It is just as ridiculous, people could argue, for a black person
to continue to be offended by the word 'nigger' as it is for anyone to
be offended by the word 'blink' if you want to use that line of
reasoning, since 'nigger' simply means 'worker'.  not 'slave' or
'subhuman'.  Just 'worker'.
	Never fear.  I'm catching up more than rapidly.
Christine