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Old February 06, 2017, 04:01 AM
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"Oversensitive about rude words" is the most offensive a person can be if they are free to define what "rude" is.

A blind person is well adapted when they acknowledge they're blind and live their life in full. People calling them "visually disabled" are mocking them in the worst way: they are defining them by what they lack and not by what they have, and they are pitying them in such a way by believing blind people can't even take to be called blind because they are depicted as living in mourn about their disabilities and they are believed to never adapt.

What would you think if I called you "transiently disabled Spanish speaker". Am I celebrating what you have achieved or rudely and suspiciously focusing on what you still lack? If I wanted to be perceived as a sensible person I would use the TDSS term with total disregard to what you may feel about it. Those are the ways of political correctness.

The inability to get something so simple is amazing. Then, you have PISA scores that have been slightly declining over the years, and the election of the first Latin American POTUS. Then, one understands. "Barrio chino", "visually disabled", "alternative reality". Frankness has passed away, politeness has passed away, truth has passed away. And it's "passing away" and not something else, so it shouldn't be that bad, should it?
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