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This explanation strikes me as euphemistic. Though it has some insight as well: "(and why it courts controversy) it is interventionist". > Part of the role a
by jonahx 2y ago
This explanation strikes me as euphemistic. Though it has some insight as well: "(and why it courts controversy) it is interventionist".
> Part of the role a phrase like “differently abled” plays is to estrange your base assumptions about disability and to signal the existence of and your membership in a group of people concerned to change the conditions around disability
Less euphemistically, you want to make other people think and act differently. And if disingenuous language policing or the threat of condemnation by said "group of people" gets the job done, that's just fine.
- burnished 2y agoThey state that directly - reread the bit where they mention the role the phrase 'differently abled' plays. They use no euphemisms. What you're doing is asinine because it attempts to cast the familiar as alien and ironically is an example of the behavior you describe - you're being disingenuous and trying to 'make other people think and act differently'. I don't know how else to say this: someone trying to change your mind is not an attack. People disliking you because you behave like shit is not a conspiracy.