When talking takes the biscuit
By: Jarrett, Simon.
Series: Community Living 34 (2) Winter 2021: 25. 2021Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
| ATTITUDESSummary: Comments on how intellectuals have viewed people with intellectual disabilities. Argues that 'on the whole, with a few honourable exceptions, intellectuals have always looked very badly on people with learning disabilities, and often express the wish that they were not around at all. The long roll call of shame includes writers Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence, socialist reformers Sidney and Beatrice Webb and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.' Also mentions Claire Fox's committment to eliminating Down syndrome through antenatal testing while celebrating the lives of people with Down syndrome. As Simon Jarrett comments: 'To wish simultaneously to celebrate a type of person and bring about their extinction is quite a moral juggling act.'
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Comments on how intellectuals have viewed people with intellectual disabilities. Argues that 'on the whole, with a few honourable exceptions, intellectuals have always looked very badly on people with learning disabilities, and often express the wish that they were not around at all. The long roll call of shame includes writers Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence, socialist reformers Sidney and Beatrice Webb and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.' Also mentions Claire Fox's committment to eliminating Down syndrome through antenatal testing while celebrating the lives of people with Down syndrome. As Simon Jarrett comments: 'To wish simultaneously to celebrate a type of person and bring about their extinction is quite a moral juggling act.'
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