From: Mary Shandrow 
Subject: Re: Fight Magoo on the Internet
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Christine M. Faltz wrote:
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> I think it's ironic that, as you say, Tom, Disney is so bound in family
> and apple pie, etc.  Did you notice that in virtually every Disney movie,
> one or both parents is evil or dead, or dies within the course of the
> movie?  Stepparents are evil.  Etc.
> As for the Amos'n Andy, one of the issues raised by the forwarded post the
> other day was that blind people could not possibly copare fighting against
> stereotypes of blindness with those facing blacks, because we could not
> know what it was like to be black in America.  I suspect black people who
> are blind could discuss this rather well -- and incidentally, I find it
> interesting that anyone would think that because in his opinion a
> particulr minority is more oppressed than another, this hierarchy of
> oppression denies us the right to address our oppression, or any
> oppression for that matter.
> The results and effects of the oppression may are the same: rampant
> unemployment, misinformation, violence, and both subtle and blatant forms
> of discrimination daily.  At least larger minorities have the sheer
> numbers which keep their issues in the media.
> I have always found people who are in marginalized groups to be far more
> understanding of our issues than others.  I don['t think this is an
> acident.
> Incidentally, in that same forward, the gentleman discusses a director of
> state services for the blind who did not believe blind people could handle
> stairs.  Hmm -- wonder where he got that idea?  Reinforced stereotype
> comes to mind, falsehoods and misinformation continued at the expense of
> the blind.
> Christine
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> 
I just wanted to say that I dompletely agree!
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