I dunno I’m fact-blind
don’t worry, “ignorant” will become an ableist term too, soon enough
But blind isn’t just a visual impairment?
It’s just a word that has two meanings, so stop trying to be offended about someone using the other meaning.
People just trying to be offended for the sake of it.
Stop calling that thing in your window a blind you sightist, that’s a telescoping sun repeller
Blind fury. Blind to someone’s faults, blinded by love. Poker blinds. Types of medical trials. Venetian blinds.
Getting angry at other well-established uses of words seems like fun.
I recall John Barnes, an English footballer, having a hissy fit because some sports broadcaster had referred to a stadium crush as ‘a black day for football’. John Barnes said it was yet another example of a racist connotation of the word. Nope, John, it’s just another meaning, you word hogger.
Tbf, in technology and IT the term “master” is often paired with “slave”, so the connection is a lot more reasonable.
I’d say blind and ignorant have very different meanings.
Being blind to something means you are unable to register it, you might be searching for it but can’t find it even though it’s right in front of you, it’s a sensory thing. Even being blind to social cues is a sort of sensory thing.
Being ignorant means you can see it but, perhaps due to a lack of open mindedness, decide that it is something else or assign incorrect characteristics to it even though eg measurements have shown different things. This could be due to a lack of trust, an agenda, or something else entirely.
Both of them make it difficult for you to learn the truth, but the causes and problems you experience are different.
Blindness, as I witness it, is not a lazy word for ignorance. It is used when someone did not inform themselves (enough). This could have been out of naïveté or out of malice, but also because one simply didn’t know better. I think “blind” in this case is very accurate.
Blindness, as I witness it,
I think I know why you didn’t want to use “see” here, and I don’t think it worked as well as you hoped 😂
That really depends on which definition you’re using, there are a lot of them, and figuring out which one it is depends on context. “Ignorance” only fits for one of those definitions, and it’s not a direct replacement in every sense of that meaning.
