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Originally Posted by Lakehead
Are you saying Racism doesn't exist in the developed world?
This is a quote from a fella named Henri Stiker and some of my observations, I think I can prove to you that disabled people in general are oppressed, or at least provide a compelling argument. Also most countries in the developed world are not 99% able bodied.
“It is common today to identify exclusion (at times quite subtle) and protest against it. The reason for that exclusion can be pinpointed fairly easily…We shall try here to ask the question in a different fashion: Why does society try to integrate the disabled? What is behind this intention? And more exactly, why does society want to integrate in the way that it does?”
“there is no better way to escape the fear of strangeness than by forgetting aberrancy through it’s dissolution into the social norm… In other words, the disabled are made to adapt to society such as it is.”
The desire for integration comes from fear, and an unwillingness to change society itself for the betterment of certain members.
There are some problems here: attempting to integrate the disabled into a world designed for the able is bound for failure from the start, because the objective is incompatible with the situation.
All deviation is defined by its relationship to the norm; the phenomenon of disability arises when the environment that an individual is situated in can no longer keep him as it has in the past. Here we find disability becoming synonymous with the term maladjusted. This is very problematic, as it is inevitable that there will be, without eugenics, the birth of disabled children and accidents that cause injury and bodily change. Disability cannot disappear, and so neither can maladjustment, attempting to force its disappearance is futile and bound to fail.
Stiker suggests a solution: integrate the disabled on their own terms, rather than trying to cure, rehabilitate or otherwise change them. This of course requires changing society as a whole, but as we have seen, this is the only solution if a society truly desires equality. It is society that produces the disabling character of disability, and since this is the case, the society can also eliminate, or at least elevate, the disabling character of disability. This dude stiker makes a very cool and important distinction, that being the difference between equality and sameness. Equality comes from the acceptance of difference as it is, not from attempting to mould the different into a socially constructed norm.
Until society integrates the disabled on their own terms, they are an oppressed group!
I can't believe I just wrote all that, especially considering how confident I am that nobody is going to read it
fucking sherdog
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Not trying to say your wrong or right.......
But what I got from that is that you think the majority should change everything about its way of life, just to satisfy a small minority???
Also, if the majority didnt try to integrate the minority, you would probably say the minority is being outcasted from normal society and this would also be the fault of the majority according to you thinking. You just cant win with some people (liberals).
The poster a couple posts above me was spot on....... being jealous and envious equals being "oppressed" in todays society.