tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post6005406389478255441..comments2024-03-16T19:36:23.953-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: If There be 7 Degrees of Separation, Could the Other 6 Pass This Along?Dave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-24851021949970356082011-01-31T21:26:12.667-05:002011-01-31T21:26:12.667-05:00Thank You Dave, enuff saidThank You Dave, enuff saidPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15390728057303887868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-56061918560511199072011-01-31T13:12:10.731-05:002011-01-31T13:12:10.731-05:00Colleen:
I'm not old enough to have been arou...Colleen:<br /><br />I'm not old enough to have been around back then, but apparently in the 1950s racism wasn't on anyone's radar screen either. Ditto for sexism. Things were just the way they were. Then in the 1950s black people "suddenly" started complaining about the "n" word and "suddenly" started complaining about this racism thing. <br /><br />Of course their complaints were not actually any more sudden then than our complaints about disablism are today. These things bothered black people for centuries before they were able to start finding ways to slowly make themselves heard by white people. Who were initially bewildered by the whole thing.<br /><br />Someone can correct me if I'm mistaken on my history, but the disability rights community did not really start finding each other and organizing to make ourselves heard until about the 1960s and 1970s in Berkley California, probably different (often later) years in other places. As with any other civil/human rights movement, it takes time just to get a movement moving: usually you need smaller successes at the local level before you can use the lessons you learn from those successes to figure out how to achieve more significant things. For the disability community I think it's taking longer perhaps in part because we are more likely to be isolated from each other for various reasons depending on the exact impairment, the exact forms of discrimination one faces, level of poverty, etc. (institutionaliztion, lack of internet access due to poverty, inability to leave the home, etc.) But I think in short, we are only starting to become a tiny blip on people's radar screen just because our movement is newer than other human rights movements.<br /><br />And then it doesn't help that some of the things we define as human rights, such as access to information for deaf people and for blind people, do require that someone pay a little extra, eg. captions on TV or Braille/audio alternatives to print format. Some people have a hard time grasping the basic concept of "equality does NOT mean 'exactly the same'" ... and that makes it harder for them to recognize how other disability rights issues are similar to other types of human rights issues that have been fought for in the past (or that are still being fought for today).Andrea S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-72677878609683893842011-01-31T12:28:36.133-05:002011-01-31T12:28:36.133-05:00FYI: I have done a search and found that the parti...FYI: I have done a search and found that the particular quote using the 'r' word has appeared on at least one fan site as a cool and funny quote from the show. Words hurt ...Dave Hingsburgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-31831898352316968742011-01-31T11:34:12.028-05:002011-01-31T11:34:12.028-05:00It was so interesting to read about Charles Dicken...It was so interesting to read about Charles Dickens' response to Eliza. That is a mark of a good man and a good writer.<br /><br />I hope this blog post is read by those involved. With search engines it is possible that they will pick it up and have a chance to think again.Belindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251920708783268740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-83156888355805880482011-01-31T10:31:01.718-05:002011-01-31T10:31:01.718-05:00Dear Dave:
I have never seen this show - we don&#...Dear Dave:<br /><br />I have never seen this show - we don't watch TV. I hope that your letter somehow finds its mark.<br /><br />It amazes me that people seem to get racism - they can recognize it when they see it and mostly reject it. But hate and discrimination against people with disabilities does not even seem to be on most people's radar. Why is that?<br /><br />Keep fighting the good fight!<br />ColleenColleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-32147634481141822002011-01-31T07:42:43.971-05:002011-01-31T07:42:43.971-05:00Thank you Dave! Beautifully written, as usual. :)...Thank you Dave! Beautifully written, as usual. :)My Girls R Angelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521021983945110512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-85353868815614619252011-01-31T07:15:04.524-05:002011-01-31T07:15:04.524-05:00I've posted this link on my Facebook page. If...I've posted this link on my Facebook page. If we get lucky and my facebook friends pass it along too, then that should be only another five degrees of separation to go!Andrea S.http://wecando.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com