Er. Is there a way to redo this post with less NFB hate? I know they're devisive but they've done a lot of good for a lot of people, myself included.
as for the video, I didn't get far into it. I've babysat plenty of kids over the years. The host is being an ignorant ass and the clip's title in itself is pretty unappealing. The chick is 20. Of course she doesn't have that much job experiance.
And if you wouldn't trust a blind babysitter, why do you trust yourself to be around your own kids with such a negative attitude about your own disability?
Lastly, I'm on several NFB mailing lists. Nobody has said anything about this. one girl and her local friends or chapter doesn't speak for the organisation. Currently NFB is frying bigger fish like Amazon for being discriminating against blind employees, among other things. Maybe don't just take a radio show clip at it's word?
I might be misreading your entire post and if I am please let me know. But from what I can tell, you just have an axe to grind.

This is the correct answer. I smell an awful lot of projection in this post. Perhaps someone should be contacting child protective services, u/Mycrotag?

The amount of internalized blind hate is amazing. Also, I haven't seen any official statement by the NFB regarding this clip, so unless you are willing to get off your high horse and share an NFB link, I'm not believing you that they said anything.

Alright, I heard this.

Firstly, she was not the right person to speak on this without forming really educated responses.

Secondly, fuck the NFB. They also do not speak on behalf of all of us blind folk.

Thirdly, I wouldn't higher a blind person to watch over my kid unless my kid was like 12+....UNLESS, and a huge UNLESS, I had that strong friendship with them and trusted them with my life.

Also to respond to other replies the federation witch I was a proud member of for 15 years has publicly addressed this situation so that being said they don’t talk about every issue the federation addresses on the main mailing lists.

I just listened to the thread. And if I as a sighted person heard the way that young lady came at the topic, stumbling over her words, not giving decent examples of successful blind parents and babysitters, it’s no wonder they responded in that way

Oh god, here we go again lol. I wouldn't hire a blind person to watch my non-existent kids if I all the sudden decided to have kids. It's nothing against them, but damn is it hard to keep track of the lil buggers. Yeah, there are great blind parents out there, no question. I honestly don't know how they do it, because even as someone like me who does have some vision, I struggle to keep track of my niece and nephew who are 3 and 7 respectively.

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The NFB are just making things worse, they're widening the gulf that already exists between the blind and sighted by making us look like toddlers with temper tantrum issues, and no emotional control.

Heh, drama drama drama! I'll watch this later :D

Do you have any links from the NFB?

I agree with you, the host didn’t say that blind people can’t be parents.