Would you mind being patronised for a good cause?
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user727380
Yes, I would mind personally and I think this kind of messaging is injurious to the well-being of the clients of these charities. Often people who are unfamiliar with blindness are told, by people in our community who are sick of answering questions, that they should go to the internet and look up the answers for themselves. Which is fine, except that people access the websites of well-known blindness charities when looking information about us. No shade on them, you would think that people whose mission it is to provide services for blind people would know a bit about them, right? So imagine this scenario: A company is told that they have to meet a diversity quota in their workplace. This can be from any strand of diversity. Traditionally, this company hasn't hired for diversity but they want to be seen to do the right thing now, so they do their due diligence and look up the websites of charities and service organisations for people with various disabilities. When researching blindness, they're confronted with the stereotypes of helpless people that need charity. So they look elsewhere to meet their quota and yet again, blind people find themselves under-employed. I believe that organisations who claim to help blind people need to find different ways to get donations that don't throw us under the bus.
Connor