[stylist] question

Tue Mar 24 02:38:21 UTC 2009

I agree with you Fred.  Bigotry, racism, blind hatred, all the same. 
Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of it going around.  Judith
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From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
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> Hello John,
>
> "> So what do you call bigotry targeting the blind?"
>
>
> I call it bigotry.
>
> Regarding your use of the term "blinks."  Many of us would put this word 
> in
> that bigotry category, much like the "n" word.  Your choice, your
> communication, I guess, but thought you ought to know.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Fred
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Jaquiss
> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:21 PM
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> Hello John:
>
>     I have been an active member of the NFB since the spring of 1990. I
> have not heard of terms for those legally blind people who try to pass
> themselves off as sighted. My view is that if a person has a significant
> vision loss, then "passing" is extremely difficult if not impossible.
> Historically, some literature used to describe blind people used the term
> "sightless", or more recently "partially blind" or "partials". The last 
> two
> terms were and sometimes still used to describe those of us who have some
> vision.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Jaquiss
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
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>
>> 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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