Re: Monthly chat december
@Tom, I do hope things work out, now or later, it's a very shitty decision really.
@Defender, interestingly enough, I found while reading anthropology for my doctorate some so called "third world" countries have pretty good attitudes towards disability. For example Al Salvador made governmental provision for disabled people earlier than a lot of western countries, because they had so many wars an revolutions they had a lot of wounded soldiers and so disabled people, whther soldiers or not got to be seen as quite heroic, it was even supposed to be quite a macho thing to see a isable man getting on with his life.
similarly, in Zimbarbway one anthropologist foun that people had such a strong connection with their families that they treated disabled people as just a farely usual part of life, indeed the anthropologist said it was quite hard to gather data because people were too afraid of governmental interference and preferd to just have disabled me mbers of their communities.
when I studied different cultures beliefs and practices around disability, one thing that actually surprised me was just how bad people in the Uk and possibly the Us were, despite (or in some cases because of), legislation about disability iscrimination. After all if someone making any bad decision about disability was able to say "I'm thinking this because of disability" and get the issue out into the open rather than make a biased decision but keep the motivation quiet, then things would be much easier. After all which is better, to go for a job interview and be refused on any flimsy excuse because the interviewer has no idea about how blind people would do the job nd just refuses as a matter of course, or to walk into an interview and the person to say "so how would you o this?" and have an honest discussion on the subject.
of course, what I say doesn't really matter anyway, we're a pretty shitty species
all around and I confess right now I'm thinking the best thing that could happen for the human race would be a serious chunk of asteroid or maybe a super virus, ---- let the ants have a go .
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