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From: homan <[log in to unmask]>
To: Gill Dixon <[log in to unmask]>;
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Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Dirty little secret?
>A long time ago I wrote that where most people with physical
>disabilities can, with a normally functioning brain and intellect, at
>least take control over some parts of their lives; people with
>intellectual disabilities, by definition, can not.
To coin a phrase, "This is the sort of sweeping statement unworthy of anyone
aspiring to be an academic, or to be taken seriously for that matter."
Definitions do not oppress. People oppress.
Ron
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Ron Amundson
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, HI 96720-4091
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