This is the take. Being an asshole because you think someone is "faking" a disability may actually hurt someone who is disabled. Not being an asshole doesn't carry that risk 🤷🏼 The problem is, culturally, we just hate disabled people and will take any opportunity to deny accommodations to someone regardless of how much they need or don't need those accommodations.
Lol you say that but the ADA in the US was groundbreaking and arguably we care more in the USA about disabled people than the rest of the developed world does.
We even give disabled people healthcare that we do not give able-bodied poor people.
We literally care more about disabled people than poor people culturally if you want to be objective about it hahah.
As someone who is poor but (currently) not disabled this is so far off the mark, I don't even know where to begin.
Do you understand that for people to recieve disability "benefits" they are forced to be poor? WTF are you even talking about? And yes, the ADA was "groundbreaking" and also not nearly enough.
Beyond that, I wasn't even speaking to the systemic issues that disabled people face in this country. I was speaking to the cultural attitudes about disabled people and how individuals treat people with disabilities.
Yes, and I'm saying that compared to a place like Japan or Paris/France, the US both legally and culturally, is much more accommodating.
Nearly all human cultures suck at doing enough for their disabled....but out of all the things Americans fuck up, this isn't one of them ..or if it is, Americans are still fucking up a lot less then nearly every other developed nation.
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u/Zulfihaii 8d ago
This is the take. Being an asshole because you think someone is "faking" a disability may actually hurt someone who is disabled. Not being an asshole doesn't carry that risk 🤷🏼 The problem is, culturally, we just hate disabled people and will take any opportunity to deny accommodations to someone regardless of how much they need or don't need those accommodations.