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Old 02-22-2008, 09:22 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by VamPyroX View Post
Gee... AGB died years ago. Just because an organization does this doesn't mean we should blame AGB.

What if I set up an organization and named it "LBJ". Then, I start doing anti-deaf stuff.

Does that mean that they should rename LBJ?
I am sure that you are aware that NTID supports the diversities of communication forms from oralism to ASL. The problem here is that AGB was very borderline to being insane like Hitler by suggesting deafness itself is disease and should be avoid at all cost

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In his lecture Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race presented to the National Academy of Sciences on 13 November 1883 he noted that congenitally deaf parents were more likely to produce deaf children and tentatively suggested that couples where both parties were deaf should not marry
Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


so why should we honor his tainted name? I know for the sure I am not only one person who feels this way.

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Originally Posted by shel90 View Post
AGBell had no respect for deaf people and their rights so yes, remove his name. It would be like having a plague with Hilter's name on a Jewish temple. It wouldnt make sense.
Yup both of them are wacky.
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