shadowman wrote:Samurai Stang wrote:shadowman wrote:She is to be commended, not mocked!
Simply because someone should not be mocked does not necessitate that they must be commended. Blindness in itself is not a virtue.
I meant she is to be commended for being a part of the marching band and rising above her disability.
As one sportsblogger put it(in reference to everyone who made fun of this video): "I do not envy our time in hell together, where we will all play cowbell for an enternity"
Yeah, I think when you make comments like this and call any achievement "rising above their disability," you're actually making it worse. Good for her, but no one wants to be babied about their problems.
Besides, blindness shouldn't affect her ability to keep tempo
In fact, she should be off fighting crime since her remaining 4 senses are now superpowered