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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Expulsion from NFB now a fact
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Date: 4 Feb 91 16:59:58 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DA> donation, but it is not mandatory.  Of late, NFB bashing and
 DA> the perpetuation of misinformation about us seem to be in vogue
 DA> on this Echo.  I have also seen many cheap shots at us from
 DA> people who usually don't participate in such things.  All of us
 DA> of course have the right to disagree with other, but I hope
 DA> that we will get over automatically thinking the worst about
 DA> the NFB, speaking without proper information and perpetuating
 DA> that information.

David,
    I agree with you that some NFB bashing has occured here, as has some
Arkenstone bashing, some Newsbits bashing, and some Artic bashing, and
some TSI bashing, and some Omnichron bashing, etc. etc. etc.  Why do you
think the NFB should be any different?
     Also, if indeed the anti-NFB messages showed any more of a degree
of misinformation than the messages bashing the others, I'd actually
empathise with your claims, but as inflamatory as these messages may
seem to you, not really that much misinformation was propogated, and
that which was, you corrected.  (Hey, I'm listening!)
     David, BlinkTalk is not really that unique of a bunch of blinks,
and I can honestly say that I hear the same type of things said about
the NFB in most every group of blind people I've been around!  True,
I've nver been to an NFB convention, but I have been to lots of affairs
where there are large numbers of blind people, and when NFB comes up as
a topic, there are always people there ready to take a position
against the Federation, and in most cases an NFB loyalist ready to
defend to the death their organization.
     I honestly expected more from you than to just answer the anti-NFB
messages here with bashing or misinformation claims, and I also expected
to hear from more NFB supporters!
                                                        Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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