Ok, so here’s the kill the deformer strategy masterminded by Mary Lynn Fuller:
“We now have another group to fight - the deformers. We have got to come out in nigher numbers than they and educate the public that it is simply wrong to leave one adult adoptee behind. We will win so the sooner the deformers join us, the better for the adoption reform movement. They are currently a big hinderance and we must knock them down, lift them back up and educate them as to why it is so important to be a reformer.”
Last year Mary Lynn Fuller wrote a post about the Philadelphia Adoptee Rights protest saying she did not support it and she would write legislators assuring them that what the protesters were fighting for (unconditional access to birth records for all adopted persons in the US) was not her goal. Now that’s some priceless education on adoptee rights activism.
How on earth can Mary Lynn Fuller expect people to take her or her cause for open records seriously? Who would want to join her battle after she wrote that! The Adoptee Rights protests are indisputably about access for all.
And after Mary Lynn has knocked down a few people, then picked them up for educating – where exactly will this so-called education be available? A blog?
And from Marley responding to Mary Lynn:
“The "experienced" people who DO know the difference and don't care are a lost cause. They need to be shamed and ridicule and dismissed from relevancy. They are no better than NCFA, RTL, and the ACLU.”
Er, more priceless education. Hasn’t the above shaming and ridiculing strategy been used for the last decade? How’s that worked out? A really bad law in Illinois is one of many examples of how this strategy is completely ineffective. I’d suggest y’all put your wee heads together and sketch up a new plan. Maybe the strategy to dismiss people from relevancy hasn’t worked out so well.
Bastard Grannie Annie is right behind Mary Lynn in the race to shame, blame, and ridicule:
Last year, around the same time as Mary Lynn Fuller’s post about the Philly protest, BGA wrote a post on her blog declaring: “Your Goal is Not My Goal!” Aiming her words at the near 100 people fighting for unconditional birth record access at the National Convention of State Legislatures.
Here’s what BGA wrote:
“But the reason is so simple. It’s so basic! YOUR GOAL IS NOT MY GOAL."
"Why on earth would I march in any protest when my ideas of an adoptee equal rights bill do not agree with your ideas?!. Do you think that I should support your protest march or other events just because I am an adoptee? Are we going back to the days when all adoptees were supposed “to stick together” if we wanted to “get anything done?” Not on your life.”
Your goal isn’t to have all birth records unsealed for adopted people in the US? After some people gently directed BGA to the Adoptee Rights protest web site, she did manage to push out an apology for not knowing that the protest goals and her goals are actually aligned. However, what I’d like to know is on what premise did she base her initial assessment of the protest’s goals if she hadn’t read any material, not even the web site, which clearly states the access for all mission of the protests.
BGA also pulled another hissy when the suggestion that people fighting for adoptee rights work together. She didn’t seem to like that idea – apparently, BGA believes that just because some folks have the same vision for adoptee rights, doesn’t mean she has to work with them.
BGA’s bit on free speech and adoptees working together:
“I’ve been told that this is name-calling, ignorance, sabotage. But it’s not – it’s debate, dissent, disagreement.
“Adoptees don’t belong to one huge fraternity. We have not taken an oath of allegiance to each other. We have never sworn to uphold the “party line.” We are individuals who happen to have been adopted.”
With adoptee rights 'advocates' like these, why would anybody be surprised that birth certificates are still sealed and partial legislation has become acceptable.
9 comments:
There was more than one protestor in Philly that has GIVEN in to conditions being attached to a bill. When the going gets tough, they cater to what the sponsor of a bill wants to do. In other words they kiss butt.
I won't lower myself to your level to say any more. Obviously you are arrogant, a know it all and have a closed mind. I try to stay clear of pathetic people.
This group have finally OD'd on Alinsky.
They have conflated the political stage with the theatre of the absurd, and spend their time striking grotesque poses while soliloquizing about ends and means. It is embarrassing to see.
They are so caught up in themselves they can't even see the difference between those who share their goals and those who don't.
Furthermore, they confuse bullying with ridicule.
The only folly they expose is their own.
Mary Lynn, it would have been the perfect venue to meet and talk with the very people you fear. You, know - the education strategy?
Since your current methods for clean bills aren't working, the NCSL would also have been the perfect opportunity for you to reach out to Illinois legislators about potential access-for-all legislation. You and GBA could have met a potential adoptee rights bill sponsor.
Right Michelle - Not to mention networking with representatives from other organizations. It was by educating the ACLU that Maine got them to remain neutral and not oppose LD1084. Educating potential sponsors and changing the minds of potential opponents....... if that's a pathetic strategy then count me in as proudly pathetic!
Oh what?
Is BN name calling again? How smart and edgy of them.
I think this is a brilliant post and I love the comment about striking grotesque poses, that is so descriptive.
Is Mary Lynn saying that because one of the people at the protest doesn't agree with her she can't participate. So is she going to have a giant protest where she makes sure everyone agrees with her on all things all the time?
Why doesn't she then? All I see from them is more of the same whine, whine, whine.
Actually, Mary Lynn originally said she didn't support the protest because she saw a video of someone holding a sign upside down and another sign with a spelling mistake on it.
It's only in her comment here that she says it's about who was there.
She wanted to find a way to alert legislators that she was against the protest.
Oh so, not only do adoptee advocates need to agree with Mary Lynn, they need to be perfect?
Maybe that explains why her own protests are non-existent.
Wow!
"I won't lower myself to your level to say any more. Obviously you are arrogant, a know it all and have a closed mind. I try to stay clear of pathetic people."
Am I on candid camera????
Lawks a-mercy!
I can't be the only one that doubts the sincerity of this comment, it is so comical. considering the source.
You are lucky Michelle she didn't type it in all caps because that is her version of VERY COMPELLING WRITING.
You only get one mother. Upon the full awareness and comprehension of this hard solid fact, one can begin at the beginning.... with this revealing template, a lens though which everything can be seen clearly, especially the lies and the loses.
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