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It’s depressing to me that one of the top upvoted comments here is ‘there’s no way a deaf blind person could have been literate.’
You’re absolutely correct that her legacy has been used as inspiration porn, but that doesn’t reflect on her intellectual abilities at all, just what stories society and the powerful want us to hear. Even during her own life Keller experienced exactly that once she became a socialist, and suddenly all the newspapers and people who went on at length about how capable she was suddenly believed her unable to reason because she was blind and deaf. Keller herself even spoke out against using her story as a way to tell people that anyone can do anything, and specifically that the poor didn’t have the opportunities she had.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Besides this is a safe space for batshit unprovable theories.
That sounds true but I don't know why
Mate. Look at where you’re at. People aren’t upvoting me because I’m right, they’re upvoting me because I answered the question.
Keep your words out of my mouth. You’re just looking for an excuse to be offended.
If you meant something else by:
I’m open to hearing it. But I’m not sure how you believed that statement gave the impression you thought she was literate.
You.
Most literate people have never written a book. Blind and deaf people are not a monolith, doubting one does not automatically apply to all like you're implying. If you're going to criticize me, at least quote me correctly you goober. Go be needlessly upset somewhere else.
what is happening here?