"Citizens with inabilities?"
These 2 AB guys are, presumably, not comedians?
Well, since this is a newly minted term, there's no social history
context for it... but my impression is that is may be objectively not
"wrong".... but subjectively, it "sounds flaky" & "sounds bad"..... and
the effort to find a new term from these AB guys, speaks volumes about
their apparent indiference to what PWD's want to be called.
Why does the world need a new term for this? Because whatever we want
to be called, some AB has to be a contrarian?
This reminds me of paint makers, who can't label their paint colors with
plain English.... every shade has a "special" name...like "Moonlight
Mist" or other ridiculous names; and without seeing the paint chip, you
can't even begin to guess what it is.
"Citizens with inabilities" extends my prior posts, about certain
contrarian individuals' compulsion towards what I called a
"hyper-novelty of language", where disability is concerned. My posts
on that, got endlessly pounced on & endlessly twisted into straw-man
arguments, on this listserv..., (does grad school disable one's common
sense?) ... as if the phenomenon I was talking about, did not exist.
Thanks for the great example, proving it does!
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