OK, what was really going on is that I was reading a blog post from a comrade about how many phrases that are often colloquially used are actually ableist/sanist. And in that blog post, it mentioned a lot of phrases where there weren’t any slurs per se, but were still considered ableist/sanist, such as the aforementioned “turn a blind eye”.
OK, what was really going on is that I was reading a blog post from a comrade about how many phrases that are often colloquially used are actually ableist/sanist. And in that blog post, it mentioned a lot of phrases where there weren’t any slurs per se, but were still considered ableist/sanist, such as the aforementioned “turn a blind eye”.
Probably should have led with that and a link to the post instead of the vagueposting that got people suspicious.