[lbo-talk] Re: Dean Baker on immigration

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Thu Apr 20 21:51:34 PDT 2006


On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:01 AM, BklynMagus wrote:


> Marta quotes David Pfieffer:
>
>
>> To use Berg's examples, capitalist and workers, corporations
>>
> and the public, the imperialists and the dispossessed, and
> persons in and out of the power structure all tend to loathe
> people with disabilities and want them out of the way.
>
> My brother is disabled and I do not think a single member of
> my family wanted him out of the way. In fact, my mother lived
> with one fear: that because my brother was adopted and his
> disability was not apparent in the first weeks after his birth, the
> agency would take him away since there had been no discussion
> about my parents taking a child with special needs.
>
Pfiefer lived his entire life using a wheelchair. When he died a couple of years ago he wass in his 60s. So he grew up when disabled children were ALWAYS segregated and put into classrooms beneath their capabilities. Then when he was of college age he faced not being able to take classes that were on the second floor because there was no ADA and hence no right to demand an elevator in a public institution of higher learning. This is just a wee taste of what his life was like - not being wanted by society otherwise it would have chosen to make the environment he grew up in different. He lived it brother. So please don't give me one little anecdote and think you know what you are talking about.


>
>> Why is this pervasive dislike and oppression of people with
>>
> disabilities not perceived by people in the other movements?
>
> Because maybe it isn't there? Lack of recognition of the needs
> of disabled people is not equivalent to or inspired by pervaisve
> dislike. It is just S.O.B. for our hyperindividualistic society.
> Pfeiffer's logic is crazed.

You are off your rocker to say something like this. It just shows how immature and removed you really are. People know when they have worked for years and years to progress their issues and see the blockades erected. We know when we are hated. Give Pfieffer, a brilliant man, credit to speak for himself. We don't need your editorializing. Marta

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