Re: My New Forum
@Xoren
Reminds me of black people calling each other Nigga but if a white friend says it, suddenly it's a big nono.
If you think about it, it does make sense that a minority would usurp an insult used by the other side and either normalize it and or begin taking pride in it. It turns that weapon against the enemy in an effective way.
But after it's run it's course, it's time to either give it up or let everyone use it IMO, otherwise your really just being a hypocrite for the most part. Now that the average person isn't particularly racist in developed countries with significant black populations, there should probably not be any assumption of malice when the word is used in proper context by someone who didn't commit any crime, so to speak.
Then again, systemic racism still exists and impacts millions every day even in developed countries sooooo.
The thing with blindy though is that I don't know where it even came from. It's obviously meant as a derogatory insult in many but not all use cases. It just seems too casual to have been used by the sighted community in any significant capacity before this you know?
It seems like a word which was invented as a fun but somewhat cutting inside joke type thing, which now gets used more harshly by people who feel they are in some way above the community and want to show they are rejecting any association with the average blind person.
And used in that way, it is pretty nasty,so I have to agree we should stop using it, but I don't like policing words in general, just the meaning behind the words and the context they are used in. Your right about it looking bad to outsiders though, but any relatively smart person would assume it was just a colloquialism that naturally developed in this isolated community and let it be.
-- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
