> At 01:59 PM 09/12/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>> Well that is where we differ. Deaf are proud to be deaf, blind have
>> a bonding positive to blindness and mobility impaired are imbued with
>> disability pride. So everything else you have written here I would
>> disagree with.
>
> It makes no more sense to me that one should be proud to be deaf than it
> does that one should be proud to be able to hear. One can hear or one
> cannot hear; these are facts, not moral achievements.
where is the difference between the word "facts" related to deafness and "facts" related to "blackness"? Since there is no difference, the Deaf had/have to pass through their "Celebration of Separate Culture", as Joseph Shapiro would say. In this sense they have to go through a process of "autonomy". Pride is part of the typical journey in search of an identity which has been stolen by ........ Fill the blank.
ciao, alessandro