[stylist] question

Wed Mar 25 02:44:26 UTC 2009

When you are grown up, sure.  But the grade schoolers don't, unless they 
want to get a failing grade.
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 6:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] question

> 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.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:10 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
>>
>> 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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