Blindness Protest

[fiat_knox]

Blind activists plan film protest

The above article is about a film called "Blindness" which depicts a town which collapses when some sort of an epidemic causes its population to go blind with some sort of contagion.

'"The movie portrays blind people as monsters and I believe it to be a lie," said Marc Maurer, president of the NFB.' (National Federation of The Blind - the US version of our own RNIB)

Maurer also states:-

"Blind people in this film are portrayed as incompetent, filthy, vicious, and depraved. They are unable to do even the simplest things like dressing, bathing, and finding the bathroom.

"The truth is that blind people regularly do all of the same things that sighted people do."

Hear hear.