[A2k] Re: DRM and the World Blind Union's Proposed Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons

[Jérôme Martin]

>This is a different kind of issue.  You are talking about spending
>money to help disadvantaged people in purely material ways

I agree about the difference you make. That's why you should read AT THE
SAME TIME my second point :

"- You can promote a part of an agreement or a policy AND AT THE SAME
TIME fight against the whole agreement, policy."

Because when you write

"> Here we are talking about a freedom that everyone is entitled to,
 > which has been denied to all, and a campaign to win that freedom only
 > for the disabled instead of for all of us."

you  mean that this campaign for a particular group is a danger for the
"all of us" (that you don't define) just like some people could say that
paying a tax for disabled people is not "universal".

I don't understand why you cannnot consider such an exception in a
agreement/policy project as a political opportunity to 'universalize' (I
hope it makes sense in English) this fight from a particular point of
view, namely blind people. Just because "the exception confirms the
rules" (old French expression, I don't know if it means anything in
English) ?


Jérôme Martin
Act Up-Paris