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lunamagica

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20. Pity? (If) you dont want to be pitied because youre a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in ya house!

Mon Aug 21, 2017, 01:59 AM

Aug 2017

Lewis’ also said that living with MD is being “half a person.”

He also supported a candidate who mocked the disabled.

ICAM with you, OP

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Jerry Lewis was never a hero to the disabled community [View all] mentalsolstice Aug 2017 OP

I don't see many posts here about disabilities leftstreet Aug 2017 #1

That might be why you don't see them kcr Aug 2017 #44

The only reason this one has stayed up is because it hit a sore spot mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #45

He raised over a billion dollars for the MDA oberliner Aug 2017 #2

Hear, hear. n/t secondwind Aug 2017 #3

... cwydro Aug 2017 #22

That doesn't negate what the OP said obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #29

Yes it does oberliner Aug 2017 #34

It does suck being called 1/2 person mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #49

Were those camps segregated? mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #60

Jerry Lewis mocked people with disabilities in almost every film he made cyclonefence Aug 2017 #77

Yes he did. It would be nice if he actually listened to PWD Adrahil Aug 2017 #85

Except for the billion or so he raised for MD. Other than that Dreamer Tatum Aug 2017 #4

+1 rock Aug 2017 #6

He was a dick to them, the OP is correct obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #31

Someone left the bot on repeat Loki Liesmith Aug 2017 #33

Yes calendargirl Aug 2017 #42

Years ago my cousin (who was disabled) invited me attend a protest at the local Labor Day telethon dflprincess Aug 2017 #5

Well screw Jerry GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #10

There is no group of people quite so pure Dreamer Tatum Aug 2017 #12

Yeah GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #13

I know. cwydro Aug 2017 #23

Damn! I wish I'd said that. Grave dancing tends to be a sport around here. WillowTree Aug 2017 #54

I look at it this way Dreamer Tatum Aug 2017 #56

It's not about purity. Lewis was sometimes a dick. Adrahil Aug 2017 #86

Jerry Lewis could have evolved but continued to aggrandize himself delisen Aug 2017 #36

Perhaps because we had been kids together I never treated my cousin as different dflprincess Aug 2017 #75

I'm not sure you speak for the entire disabled community. My late friend Linda lived with MD... Hekate Aug 2017 #7

Not going to say how I feel. Too soon Bladewire Aug 2017 #8

I never liked Jerry Lewis. 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #9

John Lennon used to mock people with handicaps oberliner Aug 2017 #15

I did not know that about John Lennon. 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #18

John Lennon was sort of a dick, actually. nt Dreamer Tatum Aug 2017 #19

It was his go-to schtick in the early days oberliner Aug 2017 #35

Sure... but like Jerry, that doesn't mean he wasn't an asshole sometimes. NT Adrahil Aug 2017 #87

The kids he said would soon die without your donations often grew up to be Jerry's orphans loyalsister Aug 2017 #11

I doubt that you, or any one individual or group, speaks for the entire disabled community onenote Aug 2017 #14

Would you like to be called half a person? lunamagica Aug 2017 #68

Is that supposed to be a response to my post? onenote Aug 2017 #78

He made everyone laugh, except those without a sense of humor. demosincebirth Aug 2017 #16

I have a terrific sense of humor, and he wasn't funny obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #32

As a teacher, administrator, psychological examiner for forty years the three kids I worked with MD gordianot Aug 2017 #17

Thanks for speaking up. This OP is deplorably expressed. Hortensis Aug 2017 #88

Pity? (If) you dont want to be pitied because youre a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in ya house! lunamagica Aug 2017 #20

a cripple? Skittles Aug 2017 #21

While not PC now 'cripple' was WePurrsevere Aug 2017 #30

Lewis made that comment in 2001 not the 70s. And based on the background of the comment he SweetieD Aug 2017 #59

It's a Lewis quote Bradical79 Aug 2017 #40

Read the whole post d_r Aug 2017 #41

I've seen this quote all over DU. cwydro Aug 2017 #24

Here you go: lunamagica Aug 2017 #26

And you assert this on what basis? Hey, maybe then the MDA can return the $2 billion. WinkyDink Aug 2017 #25

Thanks for posting it -- am disgusted with all the praise obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #27

A bigot against the disabled? oberliner Aug 2017 #46

If not a bigot, he was totally misguided. mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #51

I love how people are attacking you about this, and dismissing YOUR feelings and concerns obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #53

Oh, I don't mind, I understand the man had his fans. mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #55

I think it's the absolute nature of the OP... aikoaiko Aug 2017 #83

Yes, he was obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #52

"I never even thought so when I was a kid." 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #80

You clearly... Mike Nelson Aug 2017 #28

MDA is a terrible mostly fatal disease...he raised tons of money...and that was his goal. Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #37

No good dead goes unpunished. tavernier Aug 2017 #38

He knew how to get folks to open their wallets. That was his product. He was very good at it dembotoz Aug 2017 #39

You can't please some people, especially negative people. FLPanhandle Aug 2017 #43

Some liked him and think he did good, others did not joeybee12 Aug 2017 #47

Times change. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #48

Has there been any polling done on this? BannonsLiver Aug 2017 #50

Lewis came from a time that wasn't quite so politically correct. hamsterjill Aug 2017 #57

He made his hateful remarks about PWDs in 2001 mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #61

So we should just discredit all of the good that Lewis did because he made some stupid remarks? hamsterjill Aug 2017 #62

Would you like to be called half a person? lunamagica Aug 2017 #69

No but I don't think that is what Lewis did. hamsterjill Aug 2017 #70

"I just have to learn to try to be good at being half a person. I may be a full human being in lunamagica Aug 2017 #71

Do you honestly define yourself by one person's comments? hamsterjill Aug 2017 #72

I just think that if someone had said that about blacks, or LGTBs DU would explode lunamagica Aug 2017 #74

I dunno, because if he raised the money, treestar Aug 2017 #58

Look folks, I'm not grave dancing! mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #63

Don't most kids with MD know it's a bad situation? BannonsLiver Aug 2017 #64

Bingo! mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #65

Jerry Lewis Dbasb Aug 2017 #66

You can raise funds AND treat people as equals and with dignity mentalsolstice Aug 2017 #67

THIS dflprincess Aug 2017 #73

But what you said was that he was "never a hero to the disabled community. aikoaiko Aug 2017 #84

I think the reaction to Jerry Lewis by PWD was enlightening for a lot of people. milestogo Aug 2017 #76

Criticisms to his approach are fair , but it seems like the funds have done a world good for some. aikoaiko Aug 2017 #79

It's possible to help by raising a lot of money and still be a jerk mvd Aug 2017 #81

What a horrible man! Are there any statues of him we can tear down? jcmaine72 Aug 2017 #82