Can I just say - You are not disabled.
This old woman was on my trip to Catalonia. By coincidence, she was on the same plane going, stayed in the same hotel, went on the same daytrip to Girona and was on the same plane going home.
So she rocks up to the airport going, in a wheelchair, and because I didn't know her at this point I didn't think anything of it.
Until we get to Catalonia.
This old... person, goes racing around the hotel on her feet, not even a walking stick needed to support her, when she wants to be first in the queue to get her food in the canteen. She has no problem going on a daytrip to Girona and walking around the town all afternoon.
But then go back to the airport to come home, suddenly she's "disabled" again and has to be pushed around and helped by a (absolutely gorgeous) worker from the airport.
You serious?
I wouldn't care much, but just remember old lady, next time a genuinely disabled person who really can't walk comes along, someone will think of you when they look at them.
This old woman was on my trip to Catalonia. By coincidence, she was on the same plane going, stayed in the same hotel, went on the same daytrip to Girona and was on the same plane going home.
So she rocks up to the airport going, in a wheelchair, and because I didn't know her at this point I didn't think anything of it.
Until we get to Catalonia.
This old... person, goes racing around the hotel on her feet, not even a walking stick needed to support her, when she wants to be first in the queue to get her food in the canteen. She has no problem going on a daytrip to Girona and walking around the town all afternoon.
But then go back to the airport to come home, suddenly she's "disabled" again and has to be pushed around and helped by a (absolutely gorgeous) worker from the airport.
You serious?
I wouldn't care much, but just remember old lady, next time a genuinely disabled person who really can't walk comes along, someone will think of you when they look at them.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie