The “Cancel Culture” and the other elements of this age of extreme political correctness gone insane are being used to control the narrative of conversations, and it is being done in order to control conversations and discussions in order to ensure that the substance of any topic is avoided in trade for extreme attention to distractions.

A glaring example of the fraudulent nature of this political correct cancel culture is the term “ableist” being used to describe words, with the notion that we should avoid using such words as the words themselves are discriminatory.

An example which illustrates the preposterous nature of this culture says all we need to know:

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

Obviously, using the term “blind spot” is not intended to be insulting to blind people. But apparently that fact doesn't stand in the way of this cultural nonsense, this, well, contagious insanity.

But I'm not blind, so how can I know if such a term is insulting to me or not? Well, let's use some other examples, because the fact is, I am mentally disabled, and most of the terms said to be insulting towards the disabled, are in fact terms which supposedly insult people like me, terms like crazy, nuts, loco, lunatic, nutter, and whatever other terms they use...terms I use too.

Now, don't get me wrong, if someone called me some term like that as a means to demean my condition, then yes, I would be insulted. But the existence of the term does not insult me. It doesn't affect me, even if someone uses it. If someone wants to try to insult me, that's their problem. But the only person who CAN be insulted is me. And an insult doesn't come from the outside, it is a feeling from within that is a reaction to something outside. So I don't worry about what someone says when they are trying to insult me, thus I cannot be insulted by such terms.

Yet, this cancel culture seeks to eliminate these terms, to alter the very language, based on the notion that terms like these insult people like me, which you now understand not to be the case.

So why? Why all the fuss? Why are people being canceled, threatened, intimidated, shamed, and otherwise bullied for no more than otherwise innocent and common use of language?

The fact of the matter is, the term “ableist” cannot be applied to a word. The term, while relatively new, is defined, formally, as meaning discrimination against the disabled. Now, discrimination is an action, correct? And the last time I checked, words cannot complete actions, only convey information. So how can presenting information be discriminatory? It cannot, discrimination is a conscious decision, which clarifies that it is not only an action, but an action resulting from a decision, hardly something a concept like a word can accomplish.

Obviously the phrase “blind spot” was not coined without consideration for the condition and difficulties experienced by blind people. Suggesting the phrase itself is ableist is preposterous on it's own. But even extending that and suggesting that people who use the term are ableist, or that using the term is ableism cannot be correct because there is no intent in it's use to insult blind people.

So why then? Why have things gotten to the point where some people feel the need to not only self-censor, but to try to censor the rest of us from using terms like “blind spot” or “nutter?”

Why? Because some people, most it seems, are foolish enough to accept this as a real issue, and you are meant to do so in order to be distracted from the real issue: a society which itself discriminates against people.