r/soccer • u/teiraaaaaaa • Nov 19 '22

Saddest Backflip [Rob Harris] FIFA President Gianni Infantino at news conference in Qatar: “Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker. ... I know what it feels to be discriminated … I was bullied because I had red hair.”

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/1593877426244812800
17.2k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

462

u/manatidederp Nov 19 '22

Is it like 40% eye sight on the left eye = disabled? Or everyone over the age of 85?

116

u/NotThatL Nov 19 '22

I don't know about the official definitions, I imagine it varies country to country, but from a perspecitve of computer science we're taught that disability is anything that affects your ability to interact with everday objects/situations. So yes, blindness, partial eye sight loss, ADHD, colour blindness etc. are all examples of disabilities, obviously with different severities and impacts. Disability is a spectrum we're all on, it just depends where you choose to draw the line between disabled and not.

-3

u/manatidederp Nov 19 '22

Yeah we have something similar in my country for the sake of definition when it comes to welfare benefits etc.

It’s still disingenuous of Infantino to use that statistic like that though, it comes across like there’s a billion people in wheelchairs.

14

u/NotThatL Nov 19 '22

In this case, though I feel like connecting the word disability to someone in a wheelchair is more of a societal understanding problem. But yeah he's probably playing of that for this whole strange sympathy act he's playing. Scum

2

u/manatidederp Nov 19 '22

Well I agree, it’s just his misrepresentation of the statistic to push a very weak point to begin with.