I'm with Judy on this one!
Gill.
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> Subject: Re: attitude change (fwd)
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> Carolyn wrote:
> > > It [confronting a discriminatory joke] only means that one should>
> > recognize that the only thing one has > done is sent the behavior
> > underground (for lack of a better term) and it won't be > done in one's
> > presence again -- at least not for a time.
>
> I find this an unnecessarily negative attitude. I have found that the
> majority of people if approached properly would prefer to be supportive. I
> have seem great improvements in attitude around disability issues when
> people are given meaningful imformation in sensitive ways.
>
> Henry Cullihill's wife felt supported by the response to her decision to
> speak out - she should know, she was there. Why undermine good things
> when they happen?
>
> JUdy SInger
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