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Re:People with blindness can read again after retinal implant by squigz on Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:54AM (#45709250)
The idea of replacing "blind people" with "people with blindness" has absolutely nothing to do with the idea that "blind" is negative - if it did, I suspect proponents would, you know, not use the word blind!

The actual reasoning is putting the people first, not their disability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language

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Re:People with blindness can read again after retinal implant by inglor_cz on Sunday October 26, 2025 @03:05AM (#45709712)
It still seems to be rooted in the same social engineering principle, based on Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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