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➕ Add definition for tone-deaf (#112)
* ➕ Added Asian terms and subterms, Orientalism * ➕ Add misia, update fatphobia * ➕ Add tone-deaf * 🚩 Changed flag to medical appropriation * 🐛 Fixed indentation issue, broke build
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title: -misia | ||
slug: -misia | ||
speech: noun | ||
defined: true | ||
sub_terms: | ||
- text: Fat | ||
full_title: fatmisia | ||
- text: Islam | ||
full_title: fatmisia | ||
- text: Trans | ||
full_title: transmisia | ||
reading: | ||
- text: Beatley Library Anti-Oppression Guide | ||
href: https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression#s-lib-ctab-10174165-1 | ||
- text: 'Anti-Oppression: Anti-Fatmisia' | ||
href: https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression/anti-fatmisia | ||
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from Greek for hate or hatred | ||
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## Use | ||
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-Misia can be appended to minoritised identifiers that are targeted for hate, such as to fat (fatmisia), trans (transmisia), or Islam (Islamomisia). | ||
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## Issues | ||
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-Phobia is Greek for 'fear of'. | ||
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When used as a suffix in the context of Islamophobia, transphobia, or fatphobia, it is translated to mean that the group has a fear of individuals and communities who identify in those ways. However, the implication and subtext typically is that there is prejudice and discrimination against those groups. It falsely masks hate as fear. | ||
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Additionally, phobias are one real component of anxiety disorders and mental illness, so conflating prejudice and discrimination (things that can be helped) with anxiety disorders (things that cannot necessarily be helped) additionally harms people who experience phobias from their anxiety disorders. | ||
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As such, it removes the responsibility from those who exhibit prejudice and discrimination as it implies it is outside of their control. | ||
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## Impact | ||
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Hateful actions of prejudice and discrimination are unfairly conflated with mental illness. It can create a false parallel where one could imply that actual phobias are something that can be controlled, which harms people who experience actual phobias. | ||
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Meanwhile, people exhibiting prejudice and discrimination are given excuses for their bigoted behaviour and not held accountable. | ||
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## Preferable To | ||
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-phobia |
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title: tone-deaf | ||
slug: tone-deaf | ||
flag: | ||
text: 'Medical appropriation' | ||
level: avoid | ||
defined: true | ||
speech: adjective | ||
alt_words: | ||
- badly drawn | ||
- in poor taste | ||
- insensitive | ||
- negligent | ||
- not thought through | ||
- unaware | ||
- poorly-conceived | ||
reading: | ||
- text: 'Less well-known ableist language' | ||
href: https://thisisforyoucarrie.blog/2018/01/07/less-well-known-ableist-language/ | ||
- text: 'Quora: Is tone-deaf ableist?' | ||
href: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-term-tone-deaf-ableist?share=1 | ||
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amusia, a neurological disorder that can be congenital (from birth) or acquired (due to comorbidity or injury) that results in the inability to differentiate speech, loss of ability to sing or produce pitch, or other disassociations with music (like rhythm); colloquially, when something is insensitive or poorly thought through. | ||
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## Appropriate Usage | ||
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Referring the medical condition (amusia) as described above | ||
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## Inappropriate Usage | ||
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As a literary metaphor for insensitive or negligent | ||
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## Issues | ||
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Connoting negligence with a medical disorder implies that actions we can control (bad choices) are the same as actions that cannot necessarily be controlled (deafness). It reinforces the discriminatory idea that disability is bad. | ||
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## Impact | ||
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Using the word tone-deaf reinforces the idea that Deaf and/or non-speaking/non-verbal people are somehow less than and that disability is bad (see [Ableism](/definitions/ableism)). | ||
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By using ableist language, we are perpetuating violence against people who experience mental or psychological disabilities. Using this language perpetuates those systems and language of harm, regardless of our intent. | ||
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## Usage Tip | ||
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Be mindful if you're referring to the medical condition or using it as a literary metaphor. If the latter, substitute by being more specific. Typically we can find an alternate definition by simply reflecting on what emotion we're really feeling. |