Darrell Bowles on Nostr: Ok I'm going to get some flames for this, but I don't understand something. Why is it ...

Ok I'm going to get some flames for this, but I don't understand something. Why is it so many blind people get offended if the term blind is throne in front of something? Blind faith, Blind ambition, blind justice, turning a blind eye, Blind enthusiasm, or someone's love ffor something or someone blinding them to something. Those terms do not mean that your disability is being targeted. We've become way too darn sensative and jumpy for our own good. And if I'm being honest, I'm calling that blind political correctness.Now, maybe it's just me, but I feel like the way I was raised, taught me better than that. Yes, I was raised in a traylor, ontop of a hill, and that traylor was behind a mountain. I'm not saying that our words should not have more precision because they should, but we need to look at people's intent. I know what alot of those terms mean, and yet it deeply concerns me that some consider them an attack on our very existance. I'm not saying that people are not rude, and do not say things that are deeply offensive. I'm not saying that people should not be allowed to just say what comes out of their mouths with impunity. There is free speech, but every word spoken has a cost, a weight a measure that is wanting. What I am saying is that we need to watch the intentions of others as well as there words. Richard Nickson said it best, "We can't listen to one another, until we stop shouting at one another, so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.