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to: RON SMITH
from: TOM SCANLAN
date: 1997-07-31 11:49:00
subject: Re: Fight Magoo on the Internet

Yes, let's talk about employment -- and Magoo.  I don't know your age, so you 
may not be old enough to remember Magoo.  I am.  So are the executives in 
their 40's and 50's who are making lots of hiring and promotion decisions.
Magoo reenforces all the sterotypes and misconceptions about blindness, 
expecially that blind people are out-of-touch and not too smart.  That bears 
directly on someone's attitude toward hiring blind people.  
Employment does not exit in a vacum.  You can't work on employment without 
dealing with the underlying attitudes employers have.  You are kidding 
yourself if you think you can.  
So, ignore Magoo at your own peril.  And if you really think it a problem 
only for "partials," then you really haven't considered the attitudes of 
employers.  
--- Maximus/2 2.02
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