Monday, November 20, 2023

The Politics of Cleft Palate - An outline of the path forward.

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  The Politics of Cleft Palate is an example of identitarian analysis of targeted minorities. The problem is that identitarianism itself is ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

The Social Changes of Today - Increased Identitarian Thinking - and the Clefted

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     Non discrimination once betokened a tolerant, egalitarian outlook. So long as everyone abided by general civic standards, good citizens...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Selections From an Email to a Couple of my Relatives

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 Selections from an email to a couple of my relatives: I’ve been writing a pioneering blog about cleft for almost a decade. Some things that...
Monday, November 14, 2022

The religious notion of Original Sin and the cleft palate community.

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The doctrine of Original Sin appears in two Abrahamic religions of the First World, the religion of the Israelite tribes, which by the first...
Friday, October 14, 2022

What someone targeted for being Muslim can teach those targeted for disability: The silence of the witnesses.

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Tarunjit Singh Butalia  on being harassed in the name of Christianity at a DMV office: “Despite being in a crowded room and others being abl...
Friday, October 7, 2022

A brief note on pervasive social discrimination against people having disabilities.

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  Liz Plank : “ People with disabilities are  one of the most underrepresented populations in local and federal government . You don’t have...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

A day in the life: Bullied at the grocery store

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 A couple months ago the chain grocer where I shop mispriced the hummus I bought. When I brought it to the attention of the employee who ove...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

What you can do when targeted by someone who thinks you aren’t in a protected class

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 In June, 2013, this blog posted ( Imagine That America Had Its Consciousness Raised ),  about What We Can Do. Today, if someone gets on you...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Andrew Sullivan’s view of gay stigma often resonates for cleft stigma

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 Andrew Sullivan’s Out on a Limb :, Chapter The Politics of Homosexuality : “There is no common discourse in which he can now speak, …” A be...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Does the performative era exacerbate the pervasive public discrimination against the stigmatized disabled?

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Black Columbia Professor John McWhorter’s Woke Racism’s  explanation of Critical Race Theory describes it as an academic fad which is not co...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

A day in the life

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 Experiences I’ve had that maybe you have too. One gets hired for a position, and does well in it. Sooner or later there’s an office shuffle...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Example of cleftphobia: “What’s a misfit doing at a party?”

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“Public prejudicial discrimination—harassment—is an appeal to those present to share the harasser's opinion that there is something wron...