Stephen,
I have found a place to stay in Princeton if I attend on the 21st. Can you
tell me what the plan is--when and where people are meeting?
(The Rev.) Nancy Lane
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From: Stephen N. Drake <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 6:09 PM
Subject: Singer: The Reach of Disability Studies
>
>There's been a lot of interesting discussion of Peter Singer's ethical
>theories on this list, and I hope to reply to some of it soon. We've all
>been pretty busy at NDY - developing new information packets,
>sending faxes and answering email about the protest at Princeton.
>We're getting a very good response from the developmental
>disabilities community, who appear to comprehend that Singer's
>*primary* targets are people with cognitive disabilities.
>
>Meanwhile, in the past week, we have also heard from several different
>people that SDS is *considering* inviting Singer to the yearly conference
>for a debate.
>
>Is this really true? If so, when was SDS intending to inform the rest of
>the community? When it was too late for too many of the people
>principally affected to say anything?
>
>If Singer is invited to present his views at the official meeting of the
>Society for Disability Studies, there are a couple of ways the decision
>could be viewed:
>
>1. SDS is willing to give its seal of approval to the idea that "Should
>it be legal to kill people with disabilities?" is a legitimate question
>within Disability Studies (I am having a hard time imagining professionals
>in other minority studies disciplines making a similar statement).
>Therefore Disability Studies, as construed by SDS, is a field which
>is at least theoretically willing to consider the legal mass destruction
>of people with disabilities to be acceptable.
>
>2. SDS, like other segments of society, devalues people with cognitive
>disabilities to so great an extent that it is willing to invite a leading
>advocate of their extermination as an honored guest. Therefore
>Disability Studies, as construed by SDS, is a field that only values
>persons with physical or sensory disabilities and without cognitive
>disabilities.
>
>I guess the difference between these two conclusions would come down
>to, would SDS offer its podium to Kevorkian or another advocate of
>killing people with *physical* disabilities?
>
>I've probably said more than enough for this round. I'll wait for some
>clarification from SDS before going farther.
>
>Stephen Drake
>Not Dead Yet
>
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