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Part One: Helen Keller Was a Socialist But Also Complicated

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Sarcastic Letter to a Student

Alex and a Graham Bell, Alec was a eugenicist. He actively believed in universal suffrage regardless of race or gender. And he treated the disabled people that he dedicated his life to in bad ways. The oralism bell championed was a disaster for the deaf. It implicitly teaches a kind of self abnegation that deaf people are of value only in so far as they can approximate another person.

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