[stylist] question about philosophy

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On 8/20/2010 2:03 PM, Judith Bron wrote:
> Priscilla, Is the goal of the minority to be accepted by the majority 
> or to rid every myth surrounding it from the face of the earth?  Life 
> is not a game of password.  As a matter of fact, I would not have 
> guessed that blind could be synonymous with a cup.  Charities all over 
> the world use a cup, charity box or some other kind of vessel to 
> collect for their organizations, the needy and the otherwise 
> disadvantaged.  Are you trying to dispel a myth or are you going out 
> of your way to prove that every negative associated with blindness has 
> been successful in portraying the blind since forever? The guy 
> standing on the street during holiday time is collecting money using a 
> large kettle, charity box or his bare hand.  Tell the bigots to grow 
> up and you keep on fulfilling your goals as a human being.  Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Priscilla McKinley" 
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> Listers,
>
> While I don’t have a problem with donations online, the can or cup
> sitting on a table gives a negative image.  Throughout history,
> persons with disabilities, including blindness, begged for money,
> sitting on street corners with cans or tin cups.  The NFB has been
> struggling for years to change what it means to be blind, including
> ridding the public of such images.  In 1970, Dr. Jernigan gave his
> banquet speech entitled “Blindness: The Myth and the image” in which
> he discusses the tin cup:
>
> “How does the tragic view of blindness find expression in modern
> society? I would answer that it takes two forms: among the public it
> takes one form, and among professionals another. On the public and
> popular side, it tends to be conveyed through images of total
> dependency and deprivation—images, that is, of the "helpless blind
> man." A typical recent example occurred on the well-known TV program,
> "Password," in which a number of contestants take turns guessing at
> secret words through synonyms and verbal associations. On one such
> show the key word to be guessed was "cup." The first cue word offered
> was "tin;" but the guesser failed to make the connection. The next cue
> word given was "blind"—which immediately brought the response "cup."
> There you have it: for all our rehabilitation, all our education, and
> all our progress, what comes to the mind of the man in the street when
> he thinks of a blind person is the tin cup of the beggar!”
>
> In his speech, Dr. Jernigan goes on to say that we can’t go back to
> those times, to those images.  We need to move forward.  In my
> opinion, donations are fine, but not charity, which the cans and cups
> and containers have represented throughout our history.  In fact, many
> people in disability studies believe that the term “handicap”
> originated from that image, the hand to cap, from the beggar, which is
> one reason the term disability is now used.
>
> Anyway, just thought I would share.
>
> Priscilla
>
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>
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> On 8/20/10, The Crowd <the_crowd at cox.net> wrote:
>> Here here, well said Joe!
>>
>> Atty
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