[nagdu] No Jews Allowed

[Margo and Arrow]

Jeannette, your perspective also makes sense.  I've been carefully reading 
the article and comments.  thanks, everyone, for commenting on this article.

margo andArrow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] No Jews Allowed


> Jeanette, your perspective makes sense to me.
> Tracy
>
>> What I was trying to say (and perhaps failed at) was that an analogy of
>> Jewish oppression versus discrimination based on guide dog ownership is
>> invalid and poor. While someone may be a great ally to blind folk and
>> people
>> with service animals, this article is in poor taste.
>> I say this as a Jew *and* a guide dog handler.
>> We cannot compare the experiences of people persecuted because of 
>> religion
>> to our own experiences as handlers. The reason we are denied service is
>> ENTIRELY different than the reason Jews (or LGBT folk or people of color
>> or
>> poor folk and on and on and so on and so forth) are/were denied access to
>> service and public space.
>> But this is a stickler for discussing privilege, discrimination and
>> oppression; we are not comparative to other groups yet the *feelings* we
>> have are very very similar. So how do we talk about what it's like to 
>> have
>> an access challenge as handlers that is both validating and sensacle? i
>> don't have a good answer. I know that I've been talking with my therapist
>> on
>> how to handle the day-to-day struggles of access challenges and ignorant
>> public and compare it to PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) without a
>> post-trauma period.
>> That's what I'm trying to talk about.
>> Jeanette
>
>
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