you always have to consider the historical context, not to excuse terrible views but to understand them. I'm sure Keller's views about disability and criminality for instance have to do with the fact that disabled people weren't given access to education and therefore jobs, and therefore were more likely to try and survive through less lawful means.

Eugenics was such a massive trend among intellectuals of this era anyways. Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes (two other LGBT icons btw), Churchill, Alexander Graham Bell or H. G Wells were advocating for it. Honestly you could not be taken seriously in the Anglo-Saxon countries if you did not believed in it.

Marupyon honestly saying that Churchill advocated for eugenics doesn’t really help much. Despite popular imagination, he was actually a very terrible man. He was notoriously bloodthirsty and advocated for violence and was also extremely racist, anti-semitic, and classist. I understand those who would say in his and others cases, that we should consider historical context, but we should always remember that there WERE people who knew better and were fighting against eugenics, racism, and other evils of the time. I don’t think anyone is black and white in ethics or morality, and a lot of people unfortunately live their lives in ignorance, but to paint these views as beholden to a time period seems to me only to promote one demographics view of history and leave out inclusivity and accuracy.

Blake Evelyn Was there a significant anti-eugenics presence in the early 1900's? It is my understanding that it was a pretty widely held position until the 1950s... for obvious reasons. The logic and rationality behind eugenics does make sense, at the time. It was the application of our understanding of the theory of evolution. Of course today we realize that evolution can't really be manipulated like that; there's just way too many unknown variables (plus traits can shift from being beneficial to be detrimental and they can shift from being detrimental to being beneficial, depending on changes in the environment). This is also why I don't support genetic engineering in humans, there are just too many unknowns.

that's actually really uplifting the heater. We have the tendency to start of sainthood on amazing figures in the past that acknowledging that they're human

learned something from an educational youtube video and then as a bonus I'm learning in the comment section! AWESOME!

Aw that fun fact is so cute

piarate king honestly??? I think all children should learn some sort of sign language as infants. It can be extremely helpful and beneficial for their development. It also allows children who can’t yet speak to communicate more effectively with their carers and others around them. Regardless of whether the babies are deaf or hard of hearing or not. And??? If you keep up with it as they get older, they’ll be bi-lingual and able to communicate in both spoken language and sign language. It’ll also really reduce the stigma around deafness and deaf muteness and decrease the isolation that deaf and/or mute people face because more hearing and speaking people will be able to communicate with them using sign language if they choose to

Jalex Ones Chanel I have an auditory disorder, I can hear just fine, but my brain doesn't process the information correctly. When I was in late elementary school I was offered to be taught sign language by the school board, but since no one I knew spoke it and no one in my family were willing to learn it as well I didn't accept the offer. I figured there was no point in learning a language that only I spoke and that I'd forget it once the government stopped teaching it to me, because no one bothered to learn it with me. I'm still a tad bitter about that.

They're also starting to teach sign to kids with autism to help them communicate. I think usually just a few basic signs, but much better than being frustrated over not being able to be understood! I think for some kids it becomes a bridge to developing spoken language later (kind of like teaching sign to hearing babies), but I would have to do more research to confirm...

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Hadn’t really noticed the ambivalent wording! 😂

This is one clear example about how history is taught how those in power/control wish it to be. Ever heard the saying, "history is written by those who won"? One reason I believe it's so important to study history from many sources. Another example, as an American, we learned in school how the "filthy" European explorer brought diseases such as syphilis to our Native people, however Europe teaches that the spread of the disease in Europe is due to the Natives giving it to them. Just good for thought.

@@tearalewis7532 just to clear up in europe we aren't taught diseases were given to us by natives. Our history curriculum in germany largely just pretends colonialism didn't happen outright, except for the british empire.

I learned about the Edison thing in Middle-School but ONLY because I was homeschooled. And there was a guy who taught science to homeschoolers, and guess who has way more cool science toys and projects for tweens than Edison? Tesla.

You are so right; there are so many “facts” in American history that are entirely upside down 😡!

Yeap! Same! I actually looked up to her for so many years, she was my favorite person to read about, because she was painted as a saint and was literally my only access to other people like me at the time. We need more access to accurate history, and more access to ANY history about disabled people.

Indeed, I think phones should have been called "Graham Bells" at that point because they were auditory devices like regular bells but you talk through them and they are attributed to AGB so they feature his name in a pun like fashion. 🤣 Works less with modern mobile telephones with their modern and enhanced applications, I just like puns.

I agree and would like to hear your views on oralism deafness etc.

She did one called 'who are the "defective race"' about him, its in the deafness playlist!

Wow, interesting! I guess y'all never moved house much 😅

Yes!! All of this

WAIT. WAIT. Where does she teach the sign for Asexual? I'm Ace and only recently stopped feeling ashamed and accepted it. But I'm lonely and would love somebody to love. I thought I didn't count as Ace if I wanted to hold hands and cuddle and such romantic stuff that doesn't involve sex. Anyway, what's the sign?

It’s in Jessica’s video Queer Sign Language, I like the sign because it’s like a little deer hopping away.

@@jooleebilly She posted a video back in June called "Queer Sign Language" - it's in there!

So the plants, and bacteria in our life basically? Asexual is not a human sexual characteristic. It makes no sense, biologically.

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Many progressive/liberal thinkers and leaders of the time were eugenicists. It was popular intellectually.

perhaps people at that time believed scientists and other science based professionals without much research or questioning on their own part. Thinking that they must know what's best. People were backward in how they viewed and treated people who were "different" and didn't give them the same value or worthiness as "normal" people. Society changed a lot, but there are fragments of old beliefs that still hurt anyone who may have a disability, mental issue, physical condition, etc. Hopefully, we will go forward and eliminate these mistakes.

Try growing up in the south where they still won't admit the south lost the civil war.

@@heathercalkins Not in southern cities. Urban areas are more likely to be liberal.

@@beatrixlozach4840 I grew up in Austin, TX. It doesn’t get much more liberal for a southern city and they still have trouble admitting it there. It’s everywhere in the south. Yes, it’s worse in the rural areas, but it’s the cities too.

Major decisions involving your child are difficult to make. As a parent you are provided with information that is delivered through a certain lens. Many parents are shocked to find out their child is Deaf. Some can go into panic mode. The people they rely on for information are typically hearing doctors. These doctors see deafness as something to be fixed. They tell parents that if you allow them to perform a very invasive Cochlear Implant surgery that their child will hear & speak. As a hearing and speaking parent of course you would want that for your child. You want your child to be like you. If they can't hear and speak how can they be part of the family, how can they get a job, make friends (panic mode)... What parents are not told is that it is a major surgery (they remove a piece of your skull and remove your cochlea, that snail shaped bit that is responsible for picking up and transmitting sound & then implant an electronic device), CI's can fail at any time leaving a person with zero ability to hear anything, that each child responds differently to what they can now hear (like your friend), some kids don't have the cognitive processing ability to make sense of whatever sound they do hear given other issues, that later in life implantation isn't always successful or that there is actually another option like teaching their child & learning sign language themselves. CI's are great for many people but their are a lot of issues with them. Young babies are now being implanted with great success. One glaring problem is that Deaf culture is shrinking. But that's another story entirely. Many schools, even schools for the Deaf are or have forced an oral only programming. My school at one point in history was oral only but they came to see the error of their ways. Yes, common sense would say that Deaf kids and their families can and should learn sign language but that doesn't always happen. I work at a school for the Deaf and sadly over 95% of our kids families DO NOT know sign language. Shocking, right? But true. I hope that gave you a bit of an answer to your questions. Things seem really clear when you are on the outside. But when you are in the thick of it.... decisions involving the life of your child are not easy to make. I do hope Jess discusses the problems around oralism. It's a fiercely debated topic.

I have a friend who is legally blind. He can see shapes and colors and can read if he has a magnifier and holds it right up to his eyes. His school refused to teach him how to read Braille even though he asked them when one of his blind friends gave him a Braille book.

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