To all
It was certainly not my intention to cause any offence, but that it was
taken to insult people without speech does to some extent make my point,
which I will amplify.
Anyone who thinks that just because someone calls
themselves disabled person, that there is nothing else to that person but
the disability is making an error, an error on the side of RECEIVER not the
SENDER.
Keith, that you may have thought the particular sense in which the word
'dumb' was being employed insults that group was an assumption on your
part, not on mine when I wrote that sentence. I created no disability, I
was making a point about language, I intended no creation of disability. I
could have used senseless, but it was not sufficient to express my feelings
on the subject. Stupid or dumb fitted better, both are value-laden I
appreciate that but what would you have my use?
In the right context, as all language is contextual, I have no objection to
handicapped, disability or disabled. It is the sense in which the word is
meant that counts. But that is just my view.
I apologize for any hurt I may have caused, but it was not my intent. In
the future, when I am passionate about something in which <that word> would
have been grammatically fitting, I will look for another, but there are
times, when there are no words to describe how passionate we are, other than
such a term. It is something akin to Rorty's 'final vocabulary' when there
are simply no other words to put what we want to say into words.
Once again, I do sincerely apologize, I hope you will accept.
Michael
>Michael
>
>The word "dumb" insults people without speech.
>
>Please don't create disability in your communications here.
>
>Thank you
>
>Keith
>
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