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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
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Subject: Re: Emergency Exits
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Date: 23 Jul 90 20:31:35 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Phil,

     Thanks for your message on the attitudes of the blind.  Those are
priceless examples.  I know that sometimes my rhetoric can get overheated
and appologize to those on the receiving, but, in that message you
demonstrated clearly the point I wanted to get across.  In the messages
in several threads the term discrimination has been used over and over
again.  Though, no doubt, discrimination does exist and should be
countered, the trap I see us falling into is one of not taking care to
distinguish between it and the realms of legitimate personal choice.
Frankly, that lack of drawing proper distinctions worries me.  If we
continue not to think carefully about what we're about, we might just
inspire a backlash which we do not want.  It's bound to happen if we keep
on not taking care to differentiate the private from the public arenas.

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