[Blindtlk] Extremely! and I do mean, ex, tremely! offended by a comment on NFB Talk!

Wed May 18 15:59:58 UTC 2016

I agree with you for the most part. We should still watch our fingers. If you can't trust your fingers don't say anything. Remember that old adage "If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all."?

Ericka Short
"What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."

 from my iPhone

> On May 18, 2016, at 10:52 AM, Mike Freeman via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I agree with you, Erika. However, it sometimes seems as though people who
> are on the fence, so-to-speak, about NFB and seemingly are just waiting for
> something to be offended about. Put another way, they maintain that
> something one of us said is offensive while not thinking that possibnly, we,
> too, might be offended or, just possibly, might be human ourselves and might
> fly off the handle a bit.
> 
> I have a suggestion: let's all lower our paranoia antennas a bit and just
> expect that, by virtue of being on a list, we are going to encounter a
> variety of views and that it is within our power to choose whether to take
> umbrage about it.
> 
> In other words, I suggest we drop the subject entirely -- a suggestion that,
> no doubt, won't be taken. (huge grin)
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ericka via
> blindtlk
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 8:22 AM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Cc: Ericka
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Extremely! and I do mean, ex, tremely! offended by a
> comment on NFB Talk!
> 
> Your answer is better than the original. It is a lot less rude Mike.
> Disrespect and rudeness is just because you seen those questions zillion
> times or herbs question to you is zillion times doesn't mean you have to
> respond. And definitely if you're going to respond, be respectful. 
> 
> Ericka Short
> "What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."
> 
> from my iPhone
> 
>>> On May 17, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Mike Freeman via blindtlk
>> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All:
>> 
>> Part of the reason Diane reacted as she did is that, for better or 
>> worse, we get asked whether we see colors and such in our dreams *all* 
>> the time. Most of us find this question *very* old and, indeed, 
>> annoying, since it assumes that there is, somewhere in our brains, a 
>> perception of a reality that, as Jude says, we have never known. If 
>> one uses a bit of common sense, one realizes that any other conclusion 
>> implies that there is something special about the sense of vision -- 
>> something I admit many people believe but which has no basis in reality.
>> 
>> Anyway, that's why the reaction Chris got was as it was.
>> 
>> Mike Freeman
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly 
>> Mihalakis via blindtlk
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 8:28 PM
>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List; David Andrews via blindtlk
>> Cc: Carly Mihalakis; Christopher-Mark Gilland
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Extremely! and I do mean, ex, tremely! 
>> offended by a comment on NFB Talk!
>> 
>> Evening, Diane,
>> 
>> Your advising Chris to quote unquote get a life, I find to be awfully 
>> rude, particularly when it sounds like he approaches this question 
>> from a place of genuine sincerity and interest.
>> C'mon, Diane. You're making us totals look bad!
>> Car  At 08:58 PM 5/21/2015, Christopher-Mark Gilland via blindtlk wrote:
>>> David, I hate putting you in this position, but if this isn't dealt 
>>> with accordingly, I'll be leaving the list for good!
>>> 
>>> Did you see Dianne's message in response to mine?  I asked a very 
>>> very simple question.  OK, the second part of it was very very very!
>>> far stretched, I'll admit, but on earth, being I've all my life had a 
>>> little vision, it's something I don't know how to relate to, and 
>>> figured I would ask.  So again, when totally blind with no vision at 
>>> all, I ask, do you see in your dreams?  Dianne wrote back and all she 
>>> says is, Get a life?  Excuse me?  Yet another reason I don't post to 
>>> the list.  I found that incredibly! disrespectful, when I was asking 
>>> a very sincere genuine question.
>>> 
>>> Again, I don't mean to put you in a tough situation, but please! 
>>> please! will you send an admin message letting people know that on 
>>> this list, it is asked for all to be respectful of one another as a 
>>> gentle reminder?  Frankly, if I was a mod of a list, and I got a 
>>> report of that type message, and I saw it go through, that party 
>>> would be on moderated status quicker than you can say lickity split!
>>> 
>>> I'm honestly speechless, not to mention utterly appalled!
>>> 
>>> Chris.
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