Bad news, drivers. Seems it’s no longer acceptable to use a certain term to refer to an area you can’t see. Kimberley Jane Erin is fighting to “Make It Accessible or Burn It Down” (and also to “Smash White Supremacy,” of course), and she’s declared that said unmentionable term is archaic and ableist and just plain rude:
PSA:
We are replacing an ableist term with the term "dead angle"
It means a spot in your periphery you cannot see or an area not covered by CCTV
You all probably already know what term I'm replacing so I'm not even gonna tell you
Dead angle, use it til other people conform
— Kimberley Jane Erin (@crippledscholar) October 14, 2019
The Arbiter of Woke Language has spoken.
Oh, you mean a b****spot https://t.co/UnPFuSshcF
— Huell Babineaux did nothing wrong (@jtLOL) October 14, 2019
Shhhh! Don’t say it!
You can write blind spot as much as you want, they’ll never know
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) October 14, 2019
Whoa. That’s true!
Your twitter name literally has the word "cripple" in it.
— trick-or-treater (@neontaster) October 14, 2019
Yeah, well. It’s really ableist of you to see that.
What about relatives of the recently deceased? Why retraumatize them? https://t.co/jj6dm5B7Uo
— trick-or-treater (@neontaster) October 14, 2019
Great question!
Isn't this disrespectful to the dead?
— Shining Erick ???? (@PBP1366) October 14, 2019
And specifically problematic for cultures that assign great significance to dead ancestors
— OκULTRA XP? (@0K_ultra) October 14, 2019
Don’t say ‘blind spot’ any more.
Also, “dead angle” is an ableist term ambecause ppl that are dead are the least abled kind of ppl. pic.twitter.com/Uf4wwHVeIh
— matt’s idea shop (@MattsIdeaShop) October 14, 2019
Wow, Kimberley. Crapping on the dead like that is really ableist of you. Especially considering they’re too dead to fight back.
I’m legally blind in one eye and have a blind spot in the other. I’m okay with it being called a blind spot.
— the A-A-ron who done messed up (@aaronkrubio) October 14, 2019
I guess I don’t know why the word ‘blind’ can’t have numerous meanings, and also think that by avoiding the term, we are insinuating that there is something negative about it.
— Moriarty's Farmhouse (@MoriartysFarmh1) October 14, 2019
The weird part about this nonsense is that "blind" is ALREADY not an acceptable term for the visually impaired, so what's the problem to continue using it like this? Are you trying to erase the word from existence entirely?
— trick-or-treater (@neontaster) October 14, 2019
as a blind person i don’t personally find the term blind spot ableist and i don’t see (ha) much of a benefit to changing the terminology
— Lillith ? (@ablindwitch) October 14, 2019
Ha!
So, so dumb.
— Kip Parker (@KipParker3) October 14, 2019
