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Please consider changing the title. The term 'blind spot' is ableist for reasons I explain the first chapter of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability. Thank you for your consideration.
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Thanks for this comment. It is a visual metaphor, but everyone sighted suffers from a blindspot, and "blindspot" is the standard term in visual physiology. So I don't see a good way to avoid the term. Perhaps, when we explain the metaphor, addressing the abelist issue may help
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I hope you will read my discussion in the book and reconsider your position. I can't see that you have provided a good reason to continue to use it given that you have been made aware that it is objectionable.
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I will certainly read the discussion in your book and consider the issue you raise and your objection. We are using the term in the sense of scotoma. Is there a better term? I'm not convinced that the metaphor is bad, though I do think it needs to be handled with care.
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I'm sorry that you are not convinced. Are you convinced that some uses of language are harmful and offensive to other socially subordinated groups?
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Certainly. Of that I don't need convincing.
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Replying to @evantthompson @biopoliticalph and
My thought was that the term doesn't single out and disvalue people with a disability; it refers to a condition all sighted people have, indeed all vertebrates have.
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