"Are you mad?"
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From: "Bryant, Helen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Ideas that have been seen as natural
http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/disability/thinking/#feudal
As you'll see, in the main, views tended towards "if it ain't perfect, get
rid of it". Plus ca change...
However, unlike today's society, disabled people in the 19th century were
looked on, according to this, as "worthy poor" and therefore given Poor Law
Relief. I'm not saying "bring back the Workhouses", but...
Helen Bryant
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From: Harvey Cowe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 April 2008 17:33
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Subject: Ideas that have been seen as natural
In his book ' Status anxiety' Botton lists a number of ideas that have,
over the course of history, been thought of as natural. For example.
‘The real fact is that man in the beginning was ordained to to rule over
women: and this is an eternal decree which we have no right and no power
to alter’ Earl Percy (1873)
‘As a race the Africanis inferior to the white man; subordination to the
white man is his normal condition therefore our system which regards the
African as an inferior, rests upon a great law of nature’ Alexander
Stevens (1861) p213
I'm just wondering whether anyone can suggest a comparable quote about
disabled people.
Thank you
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