I know this isn't the type of thing that the algorithm likes, but I would love to see videos on obscure disabled people from history who did interesting things. That Black lawyer sounds very cool!
I think there's a real parallel between how Helen Keller's eugenicist beliefs are talked about to the way we talk about current celebrities when they do things that are wrong but not necessarily unforgivable. I was reminded of the Contrapoints video about cancel culture, where she talks about essentialization. So in this case, 'Helen Keller once said that some disabled babies shouldn't be saved' becomes 'Helen Keller was a eugenicist,' as if to imply that she was an active and frequent supporter of eugenicist causes. But that kind of nuance seems not to stick in people's minds, for various reasons.
Thank you for this video! It really expanded my knowledge on both Keller and disability in this time period. The subsequent discourse around Keller, either as a smoothed-off, controllable, saintly child, or as a despicable eugenicist, is a pattern I've seen again and again with regards to famous figures, and feared happening to me. That the pressure of time and attention and historiography can only push our image of people towards simplistic views. Nothing but pure good or nothing but pure bad. And that if you don't work to create a false, perfect image of yourself, you can only ever be remembered as horrible. I don't know a resolution to this pattern. This video and works like it certainly help, but the vast majority of people's interaction with a famous figure will always be a soundbite, a single image, something optimized down until it can't be compressed any further. Maybe the best we can hope for is a deeply internalized understanding that there's more to the story. That what we know about someone is always limited by the time we've spent looking into them and the structures that illuminate or conceal them. I feel like I have that deep understanding for subjects like math or physics or chemistry: However far I've learned, there's more to it. Everything I hear, and everything I know is a simplified picture that obscures even as it informs. I want to develop that deep understanding, that humility of the extent of my knowledge, when it comes to history and historical figures, and of famous current figures too. This video helps with that. Thank you.
The book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W Loewen uses Helen Keller as an example of how the US education simplifies historical figures in order to actively avoid teaching critical thinking skills. It's a good book for starting to deprogram from the propaganda the education system forces on children with some suggestions on how it could be improved.
Enjoying this topic, but SLOW down. Hard to follow you when you race verbally. This isn’t a race. Had a headache by the time you ended. Thank you for your research
Click the cog wheel in the upper right [app] or lower right [website] corner, go into the second option, Playback speed, and find a lowered speed setting that matches your preference the closest. It's on you to use accessibility tools to accommodate yourself, and not on other people to modify how they express themselves to your liking. Some people just speak faster, some people also like to listen to fast speech and understand it better, and if it's a recording you can speed up or down at will, demanding that someone speaks differently and criticizing their natural mode of expression, just because you prefer it differently is very entitled and rude.
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I know this isn't the type of thing that the algorithm likes, but I would love to see videos on obscure disabled people from history who did interesting things. That Black lawyer sounds very cool!
I think there's a real parallel between how Helen Keller's eugenicist beliefs are talked about to the way we talk about current celebrities when they do things that are wrong but not necessarily unforgivable. I was reminded of the Contrapoints video about cancel culture, where she talks about essentialization. So in this case, 'Helen Keller once said that some disabled babies shouldn't be saved' becomes 'Helen Keller was a eugenicist,' as if to imply that she was an active and frequent supporter of eugenicist causes. But that kind of nuance seems not to stick in people's minds, for various reasons.
Best 42 minutes of my saturday morning ❤
Well you changed my views on Helen Keller 😊
Thank you for this video! It really expanded my knowledge on both Keller and disability in this time period.
The subsequent discourse around Keller, either as a smoothed-off, controllable, saintly child, or as a despicable eugenicist, is a pattern I've seen again and again with regards to famous figures, and feared happening to me. That the pressure of time and attention and historiography can only push our image of people towards simplistic views. Nothing but pure good or nothing but pure bad.
And that if you don't work to create a false, perfect image of yourself, you can only ever be remembered as horrible.
I don't know a resolution to this pattern. This video and works like it certainly help, but the vast majority of people's interaction with a famous figure will always be a soundbite, a single image, something optimized down until it can't be compressed any further.
Maybe the best we can hope for is a deeply internalized understanding that there's more to the story. That what we know about someone is always limited by the time we've spent looking into them and the structures that illuminate or conceal them.
I feel like I have that deep understanding for subjects like math or physics or chemistry: However far I've learned, there's more to it. Everything I hear, and everything I know is a simplified picture that obscures even as it informs.
I want to develop that deep understanding, that humility of the extent of my knowledge, when it comes to history and historical figures, and of famous current figures too. This video helps with that. Thank you.
The book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W Loewen uses Helen Keller as an example of how the US education simplifies historical figures in order to actively avoid teaching critical thinking skills. It's a good book for starting to deprogram from the propaganda the education system forces on children with some suggestions on how it could be improved.
Good video!
Enjoying this topic, but SLOW down. Hard to follow you when you race verbally. This isn’t a race. Had a headache by the time you ended. Thank you for your research
Different people speak at different rates. You can simply slow it down using TH-cam's video controls
Click the cog wheel in the upper right [app] or lower right [website] corner, go into the second option, Playback speed, and find a lowered speed setting that matches your preference the closest.
It's on you to use accessibility tools to accommodate yourself, and not on other people to modify how they express themselves to your liking. Some people just speak faster, some people also like to listen to fast speech and understand it better, and if it's a recording you can speed up or down at will, demanding that someone speaks differently and criticizing their natural mode of expression, just because you prefer it differently is very entitled and rude.