From: "Christine M. Faltz" 
Subject: Re: MR. MAGOO CONCERNS
As far as I can tell, you and one other are the only ones arguing,
refusing to adress the salient points raised by those of us who have taken
the time to think about it and consider all the ramifications.  I m
radically anti-PC, but that does not mean I should have a knee-jerk
reaction against changing attitudes by protesting the use of certain words
and images.  I don't decide something and close my mind and name-call
those who disagree (unless health and safety are involved, in which case I
have been known to let loose -- smoking is an example).  Sticking with
that example, I despise the tobacco companies, but I think they are not
liable for people who chose to smoke after 1969, and I think the
settlement reached recently is horrific.  A general stance culled from
one's ideology does not mean one whould steadfastly stick to something
when the principle falls short of what is best for society.  It seems to
me that in the name of being anti-PC and not wanting people to think
you're a supersensitive blind person who cannot laugh at himself, you
refuse to acknlwledge any real harm perpetrated against blind people which
involves the media.  How you can deny a connection between the reasons and
attitudes which keep blind people out of work is beyound me, particularly
since you are blind yurself and no doubt receive plenty of direct examples
of ignorance frequently.  Clearly, no one here is going to convince you,
and that's fine, since you're not going to convince me or any of the other
anti-Magoo folk to change our minds.  But please do us the service of
keeping the majority of those who have disagreed with you -- myself, David
M -- out of the realm of argument; we have debated, but we have not
argued, and we have not been unrewsaonable toward you.l  you did provoke
some responses befitting your approach -- that of throwing stones and then
not backing yourself up and displaying a clear ignorance of the
organization aganst which you threw the stones.  In the future, please try
to engage in a polite, reasoned debate, and I ask those who got a bit
short with you to do the same.  We aren't going to win anyone to our
respective sides by uninformed name-calling and unwillingness to deal
point for pint with the central points of the arguments being made.  I
have yet to see a resoned response like that of DAvid M's for leaving the
Magoo issue alone, except that we're being too sensitive.  That same
argument, as I pointed out, is routinelyused when we complain about issues
that even you complain about.  
Christine
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