You swore, you used a double D word and the S word :)
Larry
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> Subject: Re: Impairment/PWD/Disabled People
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> I guess the issue is closely related to identity. Human societies tend to
> establish identities in relation to the position of the person in the
> production process. For example John Smith is a milkman or doctor, his ggg
> father was a smith and so forth. People with differentiations called
> impairment/disabilities are defined in relation with their 'condition'. No
> other human is subject to such categorisation without some type of
> embarrassment. Relatively recently women managed to get their categorisation
> as housewives removed, not without fighting in two world wars. It is my
> guess but it may be related (categorisation) to the fact that for 300 years
> disabled people were excluded from proletarisation (due to the
> standardisation of the work place).
>
> Having said that, I believe that DP or PWDs is a bit like a chicken and egg
> situation. Whatever you come up with reinforces the dichotomic locker such
> categorisation place nearly one billion individuals in the planet. Hence the
> issue is not about h what type of hat the monkey wears but why it has to
> wear it. Tom Shakespeare 20002 has made a remarkable contribution, following
> strategically postmodernism (Derrida deconstruction) to suggest that perhaps
> we should turn the table around and ask why people have to categorise his
> inabiolities. In othewords, the idea is to dismantle the system (the binary
> code+the lock) and ask who is normal?
> Perhaps the United Nations could help organising banquets and conferences
> to provide the standardised concept of the normal person. At that moment we
> will realise that the monkey doesn't have to wear hats.
>
> best, Andy
>
>
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