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"Keep on Rocking in the Free World"

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A Healthy Irish Racist's view of how the Healthy in the World including Ireland, should view us whelchair users.
Did u ever get to see or read her written article in the
Irish Independant Newspaper .....
Missy Anon said ........

Text of the article published on page 11 of the Sunday Independent of 22nd October 2000.

It is time to suggest that the so-called Paralympics, the athletic games organised in Sydney for the lame and the blind, are – well, one hesitates to say "grotesque". One will only say "perverse".

Surely physical competition is about finding the best – the fastest, strongest, highest, all that. It is not about finding someone who can wobble his way around a track in a wheelchair, or who can swim from one end of a pool to the other by braille.

Yet we are supposed to imagine that there is some kind of equivalence in value between what the cripples do and what the truly fastest, strongest, highest do. There isn’t.

Which is not to say the lame and the blind ought not do whatever they please. Carry on, I say; though if they were to ask my advice, I would give them the same advice I would give to anyone: play to your competitive advantage. (In other words, Stephen Hawkings shows his wisdom by staying out of the three-legged race.)

One must question the propaganda that says one ought to applaud the physical performance of the lame as we applaud the physical performance of the fit. Of course, such propaganda is all of a piece. It is part of the propaganda that wants to convince you that all cultures are equal in value, that all lives are equal in value, that all philosophies are equal in value.

It is the propaganda that says, "Do not judge, embrace all equally." Yet if all cultures, all lives, all philosophies, and all athletes were equal in value, then no culture, no life, no philosophy, and no athlete would be worth much.

Maybe the Iron Cross should be awarded to her .............

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