[nabs-l] Of Things that Matter

[Jamie Principato]

Wait, so even if his opinion is the same as it was yesterday, the fact that
he's blind now makes him trustworthy enough to *not* receive such harsh
criticism? That looks like a terrible bias to me, and in my book, no
different than a sighted person discounting your opinions when they suspect
you're blind, only to change their minds after realizing you and your
affiliates might have some vision. The fact that he is blind shouldn't have
any weight here. A blind person can have misleading conceptions about the
blind community as easily as a sighted person can, even if they are
due-paying members of the NFB. Don't trust or distrust him based on that.
Bias against sighted people is just as bad as bias against blind people, and
both will feed into one another.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:59 PM, humberto <humbertoa5369 at netzero.net> wrote:

> Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The prof is blind? And we're wasting our
> energy and our brains and our fingers just by posting comments about sighted
> people thinking things about blind people? Wow! what a surprise!
> If this professor is a blind person, that means, we might be able to
> support his efforts with more trust. Also, if he is blind, we won't stop him
> from announcing his surveys on this matter. Perhaps if his researchers are
> also blind, we will even have better support as well. And, a better thing
> yet, he might have clearly and precisely stated in his survey message that
> he was blind so that we don't take action in critiquing sighted
> people.













>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com
>> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
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> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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>> Date sent: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:44:26 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Of Things that Matter
>>
>
>  I've since learned the professor is blind and a member of the
>>
> NFB.  He was
>
>> elegant in his private response to me, and we're going to chat
>>
> tomorrow.
>
>> How I allowed myself to get swept up in this is beyond me, but
>>
> now I'm
>
>> curious dammit. LOL
>>
>
>  Joe
>>
>
>  "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
>>
> sleeves,
>
>> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam
>>
> Ewing
>
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