[Blind-international-students] Formal complaint about this video. Help Emma - YouTube

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From: Blind-international-students
[mailto:blind-international-students-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mostafa
Al'mahdy
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:35 AM
To: pressoffice at rnib.org.uk
Subject: [Blind-international-students] Formal complaint about this video.
Help Emma - YouTube

 

Hello. It was the last thing I ever imagined. I never thought that I may one
day raise such a complaint. I am critically expressing my offence of the
video in the section below. It was posted by RNIB last year. For those who
may not know, RNIB is the largest UK organization for the blind. It aims of
helping blind people to become more independent, promoting positive attitude,
and advocating for blind people rights for equality in education, employment,
and generally speaking, just to live an ordinary life. They acquire a
tremendously fundraised  charity from across the country, and they supposedly
reutilize that money to promote for blind people independency, and
simultaneously, they help blind people to optimally get along. But
unfortunately, the video in the section below contains offensive portrayal of
blind people. It indeed offends blind people around the world. It helps
growing the stereotyped notion that's already there. They were rather
supposed to adhere their accountability of refuting the misconception that's
constantly associated with blind people competency. The video in the section
below promotes mendicancy. That's totally unacceptable. Blind people are not
mendicants. I am afraid to say, that in this video, RNIB  failed to recognize
their mission statement. If I am about to post a video on Youtube, I have to
be quite careful though. And in particular, if this video represents, or
reflects on the reputation of  certain group of people. Please, help us
showing our disagreement to what's in this video. Let us help RNIB to get
back on track. Click on the video, dislike it, and  post a comment that
expresses your decline of such an attitude. Feel free to post any
constructive criticism. But, we should all refrain from any profanity or
inflammatory remarks. Thank you. Mostafa Al'mahdy.                  

 

 

 

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