That's very interesting. As a child, Keller was the butt of many jokes, usually implying she was mentally deficient. The passage at the beginning of the article

That's very interesting. As a child, Keller was the butt of many jokes, usually implying she was mentally deficient. The passage at the beginning of the article demonstrates she was anything but. And with that, there's no surprise that she, like many modern critical thinkers, was a socialist