[stylist] question
Alan Wheeler
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Wed Mar 25 00:18:31 UTC 2009
Here here! It doesn't need a label applied to it. Our society has enough labels lately, especially with all this political correctness. It's just discrimination , pure and simple.
In Christ,
Alan
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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> Isn't discrimination word enough? Doesn't matter who its against, its still
> discrimination, and that is universally wrong.
> We should be focusing on correcting the ignorant misconceptions which lead
> to the discrimination, not trying to name it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of John Lee Clark
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> Barbara:
>
> Exactly. Most of them don't know what they're doing. And it's not THEM
> that needs a name, but what they may be doing, whether or not with good
> intentions. And when we tell them, Hey, that's discrimination, we're giving
> them the opportunity to learn a bit and to change so they no longer do it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
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> I've wondered the same thing. It's not a war we're fighting. And yet if
> the "enemy" needs a name, it's called sighted. Now the whole group of
> sighted folk are not the "enemy" but most could easily be convinced to be.
> Somewhere a vary significant person once said, as his life was ebbing,
> "forgive them for they know not what they do." Most folks are ignorant and
> that leads them to be prejudice.
> All we can do is keep teaching. Did you learn more from being taught or
> being fought? One of my sons has a supported community living worker. This
>
> is a person who comes into your home and teaches your child how to do any
> number of skills. She sometimes takes him out in the community--she does
> this with older clients to work on money management and such. We went to a
> swimming pool that is at a home for handicapped children. She was very
> surprised at the way those people who worked with handicapped children all
> the time treated me. You know, looked at her for names and expected her to
> pay.
> Did I get mad? I just informed this young lady about how the sighted world
> treats blind people sometimes. She was shocked. She has a Down's cousin so
>
> for as long as she can remember she's been exposed to someone not quite like
>
> everyone else. I really think that's the important thing. If people grow
> up around people who are different, they are more open to accepting all
> kinds of differentness. Sometimes the reverse is true because like John
> said, we all have minds. It is amazing how that thing works--and also how
> it doesn't.
> 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: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:13 AM
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>> Why do we have to copy social movements that are made up of eighty
>> percent
>
>> common sense? Why can't we just keep on living to the best of our
>> abilities? Why can't we set goals, attain them and live our lives in
>> ways
>
>> that are comfortable for us without placating some political or
>> social movement? Why does blindness or any other disability have to
>> be classified and recognized as an "ism" in order to recognize the
>> fact that those afflicted with a particular disability are equal to
>> any other disability? Judith
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
>> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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>>
>> Unfortunately, "blindism" usually refers to mannerisms shown by some
>> blind people whose parents didn't stop their children from doing it
>> early on, such as rocking, and digging fingers into blind eyes.
>> So that one is out.
>> Lori
>> In a message dated 3/24/09 1:50:56 AM, johnlee at clarktouch.com writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I mean, what would the civil rights movement have been like if there
>>> was no word for racism? What would be the feminist movement be
>>> without the word sexism? What would the Deaf Pride movement be
>>> without the word audism?
>>>
>>>
>>
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