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From: Dr.Deb@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Dr Deb)
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Subject: A Complaining Sighty
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Date: 18 Jun 91 16:13:53 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

To: mgflax@phoenix.princeton.edu (Marshall G. Flax)
 >
 > 2) It is not surprising, nor is it inonsistent, that a
 > person who has
 > been blink for decades would find the word 'blink'
 > unacceptable and yet
 > use the word 'sighty'.  The relationship between the two
 > words is not
 > symmetric, because the relationship between the two groups
 > is different.
 > The sighted have tried to define and control the lives of
 > blind people
 > for centuries.  The blind have not tried to do the reverse
 > to the
 > sighted.  It's not a symmetric power relation; it is
 > oversimplifying and
 > naive to assume that the two words should be treated the
 > same.

Dear Sir,

    The relationship between the two words is more direct and
symmetrical than you would have people believe.  The terms are
offensive to the person or group to which they are applied.(see
nigger-honky, spick-gringo)  When the sole use for a descriptive
noun is to belittle, aggravate, or insult it has a wide company.
    The second "point" made is also based on a  fallacy.  The
blind, along with other handicapped persons and other minorities,
have more than evened the power relationship.  With the current
state of politics, they have actually taken the superior position
in the contest and hold people not in the politically advantaged
minorities hostage to laws and regulations that force them to
modify business access, hire by quota rather than merit, expend
resources and capital to benefit the minority at the expense of
both the majority and the individual business, take verbal and
physical assault and degradation as though it didn't matter, and
now even change their speech to pander to their assailants.
Unfortunately, you can dismiss this whole argument not with logic
or facts, but with the sure knowledge and unflinching conviction
known in the deepest heart of every leftist , socially ignorant
radical born.

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