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Language always provides non-literal, abstract ways to precisely express one's ideas. If we politicize a word, its meaning morphs. "ret*d" changed from a general adjective to talk about something that was moving, but at a slower speed, to label and segregate human cognition, to a weapon. When we PC a word, it increases its power as a weapon.
The most successful campaigns I am aware of to disarm weaponized vocabulary is the group affected embraces the word: queer (odd), first a general word, then a pejorative, then replaced with gay, now the umbrella term for talking about sexual diversity in a civil manner. "Black" was embraced because segment of humans, although we are all shades of brown, denigrated on the abstract feature.
It was used, like gay, to replace a word that is still such a powerful weapon of hate, that if I wrote it, I would be sanctioned
I pray for the day when this "old" "white" "lady" (all politicized words) can talk about my friends and family with "n-word" and no one thinks its bad because no one thinks badly of people stereotyped by it, and the pain caused by this weapon has healed. But as long as the world is inhabited by humans, we will have haters. As long as we have haters, words will be weaponized. All we can do is embrace them proudly.
Correct. It is time the autistic community takes ownership of the word "autistic" rather than leaving it in the hands of so-called "autism professionals". You might enjoy the following slides from a talk I did in January on a related topic https://coininco.files.wordpress.com/20 ... bourne.pdf.
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Language always provides non-literal, abstract ways to precisely express one's ideas. If we politicize a word, its meaning morphs. "ret*d" changed from a general adjective to talk about something that was moving, but at a slower speed, to label and segregate human cognition, to a weapon. When we PC a word, it increases its power as a weapon.
The most successful campaigns I am aware of to disarm weaponized vocabulary is the group affected embraces the word: queer (odd), first a general word, then a pejorative, then replaced with gay, now the umbrella term for talking about sexual diversity in a civil manner. "Black" was embraced because segment of humans, although we are all shades of brown, denigrated on the abstract feature.
It was used, like gay, to replace a word that is still such a powerful weapon of hate, that if I wrote it, I would be sanctioned
I pray for the day when this "old" "white" "lady" (all politicized words) can talk about my friends and family with "n-word" and no one thinks its bad because no one thinks badly of people stereotyped by it, and the pain caused by this weapon has healed. But as long as the world is inhabited by humans, we will have haters. As long as we have haters, words will be weaponized. All we can do is embrace them proudly.
Correct. It is time the autistic community takes ownership of the word "autistic" rather than leaving it in the hands of so-called "autism professionals". You might enjoy the following slides from a talk I did in January on a related topic https://coininco.files.wordpress.com/20 ... bourne.pdf.
This is called Reappropriation. If you have heard the expression "let your freak flag fly" that came about because in the '60's hippes were called pejoratively freaks by mainstream America. The hippies reappropriated it even though nobody really called it that back then. Now the expression has morphed into pride in difference of many kinds.
Aspie was an attempt to do that for Aspergers. That's all. It was not an attempt to hate NT's, disassociate from severe autistics, excuse rude behavoir etc. But many in our community have managed to turn it into those negatives. If we hate ourselves, we will never get respect, acceptence, tolerance in any meaningful way.
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