[stylist] question

[Judith Bron]

And I don't choose to learn Spanish,French or Arabic.  Again, my choice. 
The world has the ability to choose if they want to learn Braille or sign 
language.
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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> Lol, I keep mine right next to my keyboard. I never know when I'm going to
> need it.
>
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
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> And yet society would rather our kids learn Spanish or some other language
> in school.  Now I know if you want to travel abroad you must learn to 
> speak
> another's language.  But this is America!  We speak English and those 
> folks
> who don't can learn it.  We blind folks can't learn to read print.  The 
> deaf
> can't learn to hear.  So why don't the children learn a Braille and sign
> language instead.  Those are two "languages" that would help us all "get 
> on
> an even playing ground".
> When will their history books tell them about how the handicapped were
> opressed?  LOL.  I realy don't think anyone but the handicapped are 
> opressed
> in this country.
> I'm stepping down off my soap box.  Oops!  It must have gotten wet because
> it practically slid out from under me.  I guess that's what you get for
> leaving it out in the rain.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
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> From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:56 PM
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>> Lori:
>>
>> I love the words blind and deaf.  I abhor anything with impaired in it.
>>
>> Although the definition of blind may say one who cannot see, and
>> that's a negative description, we still have the opportunity to
>> neutralize the word itself and have it convey something else entirely,
>> into something that's cool.  Same with deaf.  We can take it and turn
>> it around, and associate it with culture, pride, ASL, all sorts of
>> great and positive things.
>>
>> But you can't neutralize and turn around a term like sight impaired.
>> Tthat
>> term does two very bad, bad, bad things.  First, it implies that sight
>> is the ideal, that it's right, and what we SHOULD have, and that if we
>> don't have it, we SHOULD want it.  This is society talking, "Sight is
> better."
>>
>> Second, the term implies that we're broken or we're short of the
>> ideal, or we've fallen from the grace of what society says is normal.
>> This is very bad, bad, bad.
>>
>> Does NFB merely "prefer" the word blind?  It shouldn't.  it should
>> embrace it absolutely.
>>
>> John
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