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> From: I. S. Margolis <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Striped! (Was: Eugenics through fear. Corrections!)
> Date: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:53 PM
>
> Nearly a week wasted.  Back from the physical and mental exhaustion that
I
> drive myself into trying the figure out computers on my own.  Finally had
to
> call the manufacturer: what I knew I ought to have done in the first
place.
> We'll let go unexamined, for now, the impact on my health and finances.
I
> can sense Deri tasting "long pig" re my installation of Windows 2000.
>
> My fighting strength and self sufficiency moebiused into my weaknesses
and
> near defeat..
>
> Possibly grasped the kernel, Laura, if not the direction and intention of
> your meaning.  Racism and disabilism controvert their own illogic.  The
> distinction between "hate" and "cluelessness" is forced and artificial.
> Disabled people are loathed and hated, as all oppressed peoples, by
whatever
> means and attitudes practiced by those who despise and oppress them.  To
see
> "disability" as different is contradictory and counterintuitive.  People
> make us invisible in an easy insular act of rejection--avoid what you
don't
> know, fear, and are not sure how to "handle."
>
> Avoidance, which everyone practices by the instant, seems a good rule of
> self preservation.  We know how well that works!  Then suddenly doesn't
when
> what we avoid comes back to blast us.
>
> Since I now use a wheel chair I've noticed how many people don't see me
> because I live and move peripherally below their normal visual focus.
They
> don't as much need to divert eye contact or evade the social aspect of
> quickly withdrawn recognition.  This lulls them into the false security
that
> I don't exist and therefore will yield to their assumption and conform
> "properly" with their notions.
>
> I move quite rapidly in several hundred pounds of metal framing, these
days
> more "powerful' while more frail and vulnerable.  The wheels obviate my
> concerns with falling and compensate my love of motion, flow, and
rapidity
> which my legs no longer offer.
>
> Usually I hold my ground, speed along my path with determination, will
> reinforced by armor, and the delightful realization that the suckers are
> about to get a clue.  Nothing quite like sudden impact.
>
> S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laura Cleveland" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Eugenics through fear. Corrections!
>
>
> > Maybe I am way off base here, but there seems to be a big dose of hate
> when
> > it comes to racism--I think like some said, it is cluelessness when it
> > comes to the public's awareness of disabled folk's needs.
> > Laura
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Eugenics through fear. Corrections!
> > > Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 1:25 AM
> > >
> > > Very sad story, Vince, and undoubtedly in addition to handicapism was
> > also
> > > racism.
> > >
> > > mag
> >