[nabs-l] Do you find this offensive?

sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca
Tue Mar 3 21:53:25 UTC 2009


Very true. I, too, don't think it warrants a response either. I don't  
think many people will even think twice about it unless you say  
something, and if you do there is a risk it will look worse on you.  
I'm not offended - it's all too true unfortunately.
Sarah



Quoting Christopher Kchao <thisischris89 at gmail.com>:

> I really don't think it even warrents a response. Honestly, it was meant to
> be a cheap shot and nothing more. There really isn't any reason to respond
> to it because all that does is try to legitimize/validate something that
> took less than two seconds to think of and was done in good taste. I find
> that a lot of blind people try to counter these things to get a laugh, and
> all it really does is bring the original joke back to the surface where
> people probably wouldn't have given it much thought otherwise.
> I personally didn't find it offensive. More to the point, I couldn't help
> but laugh a bit because that's so true sometimes. How many times have you
> talked to another blind person and they're almost facing the complete
> opposite way? It's not that serious. *smiles*
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Jamie Principato
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:14 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Do you find this offensive?
>
> Lol, I don't find that offensive at all. I think it was a nice try at
> good-natured... just not very well thought out. I mean, it didn't get as
> much of a giggle out of me as the first two did. I like your response, and I
> think it'll show them that blind people aren't super sensative people that
> everyone has to tiptoe around because every little thing will offend us and
> make us wish we could see. It'll show that we have a sense of humor too.
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Haben Girma <habnkid at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello, all. I'm a student at Lewis & Clark College. A member of the
>> Disabled Student Services just contacted me to alert me of a comment in
> the
>> student newspaper she thought might be offensive. The comment was in a
>> column on the back of the paper titled "You Caught My Eye," which is a
>> series of  comments of the form:
>>
>> You:  Tall glass.
>> Me: wanting to fill you with alcohol.
>> You: Erotic Dancer.
>> Me: Severely unimpressed.
>>
>> The comment thought to be offensive was:
>>
>> You: blind kid.
>> Me: Caught you not looking at me.
>>
>> I'm wondering what you all think of it. The Disabled Student Services
>> office wants to respond to the comment. How do you think they should
>> respond? I personally don't find the comment offensive and might respond
>> like this:
>>
>> You: Sighted kid.
>> Me: Writing secrets in dots you'll never understand.
>>
>> Best,
>> Haben
>>
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