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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Jerry Lewis Protest Links

Jerry Lewis continues to draw the ire of disability rights activists.

Below are three links of interest Andrea Shettle have directed my attention to.

First, there is an online petition I urge readers to sign. Here is the link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/jlno2009/petition.html

Second, there is a a Facebook Group dedicated to the Jerry Lewis campaign. Here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4053839

Third, Andrea writes that she has "blogged about the petition, along with a discussion on the difference between "pity" and "empathy,"; why Jerry's brand of pity destroys; and why real empathy is more likely to lead to human rights:

http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/protest-pity/

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