[stylist] question

[Judith Bron]

Correct, Angela.  Judith
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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> John,
> To my knowledge, we don't have a term for a blind person who refuses
> to accept their blindness or have anything to do with the blindness
> community. As to the belief that blind people are inferior to sighted, 
> just
> plain old discrimination; we don't have an ism word for that either. 
> Someone
> correct me if I'm wrong.
> Angela
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of John Lee Clark
> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 4:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
>
> Yo, blinks:
>
> Just read my first issue of the Monitor.  The Ved Mahta piece reminded me 
> to
> ask you all two questions.  I am wondering if you have a term that you use
> for two concepts I am sure that very much exists.
>
> The definition of the first one would have a picture of Ved Mahta himself 
> or
> someone else more notorious in your community for this type.  The text
> definition would be something like "a blind person who is in denial or
> refuses to embrace blind identity and in fact takes pains to avoid blind
> people or being associated with the blind community."  The black community
> has its own version, called Uncle Tom or Oreo--dark on the outside but 
> white
> inside.  The Deaf community has this type, too, called hearing-headed, 
> with
> a special sign that implies the person is hearing in his head, obsessed 
> with
> trying to be hearing.  The most notorious hearing-head is probably Heather
> Weatherstone, who was Miss America but is a graduate of the much-hated
> Clarke oralist school and doesn't sign or anything.
>
> So what do you call a blind person like that?
>
> Now, I'd like to learn what you call something else.  Blacks have to deal
> with racism, which is the belief that blacks are a lower class.  Women 
> often
> encounter sexism, which is the belief in the inferiority of one gender 
> under
> another.  Young people and old people sometimes suffer from ageism, which 
> is
> discrimination against someone because of that person's age.  The signing
> community has to work against audism.  Our most villainous audist figure 
> is
> Alexander Graham Bell, and he is the subject of many works of Deaf art,
> taking the role of a monster, a dread ghost, and in a famous poem he is 
> the
> Pilate who crucifixes Laurent Clerc, the most beloved Deaf historical
> figure, the first Deaf teacher in America.
>
> So what do you call bigotry targeting the blind?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
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