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Originally Posted by lumbingmi
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
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.
Yup both of them are wacky. |
Well, his beliefs were based on his lifetime... not ours.
Years ago, a lot of people thought that deaf people couldn't do anything. Do we look at those people and degrade them or protest them in every manner possible? No.
We do look back and laugh... while applauding ourselves today for where we are.
There's no need to suddenly attack someone today for something that happened years ago. NTID was founded 35 years ago. Why wait 35 years to say something today?