tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108383609143970595.post6834740425613735705..comments2016-05-04T14:00:49.927+01:00Comments on Socitm President's Blog: One Small Step...Richard Steelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03986762590508207477noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108383609143970595.post-76328998014893402382009-02-15T10:55:00.000+00:002009-02-15T10:55:00.000+00:00I think there needs to be more care taken on ensur...I think there needs to be more care taken on ensuring charitable provision is ethical, both morally and otherwise. E.G. the RNID perported t obe the UK's prime supportive network for deaf and HI people, operates against the collective cultural deaf viewpoint, and indeed, hires no deaf people.<BR/><BR/>This is not a grass-root charitable support network dedicated to empowering deaf people either, but a self-perpetuating job for hearing people, while 63% of us have no job. <BR/><BR/>I just wish when people hand over money and raise funds for such dubious groups, they enquire a little more into how it actually operates to our deteriment. <BR/><BR/>Philanthropy can be argued, empowers the person, charity, disempowers them and maintains support depedency, which one would you prefer ? How would you view as a deaf person, the head of the RNID going on TV and saying 'It's all in your head, if you don't like how we run things, you know what to do' .... <BR/><BR/>I would urge no fund raising on the strength of that, you are contributing to our enslavement to charities, and our access as a right, all you do is prop up non-access for us, give us your VOTE, keep your money.<BR/><BR/>Charities are propping up social services, there seems no real desire to empowere us to do for oursleves, but how you 'deal' with deaf or disabled people's 'needs', we want out of this as well as you do... give us the tools.mervynjames224https://www.blogger.com/profile/06689615164654187617noreply@blogger.com