To fight Discrimination, people with Disabilities should be allowed to get a job. I have Epilepsy and was classed Unemployable for Public Safety. When I applied for work at Starbucks, I was told "We want to draw customers IN, Not drive them AWAY!" The next time you enter a Shopping Mall, try find One Single Store that's hired someone with a Visible Disability such as a wheelchair! You probably Won't find a Single One! Why is that? Why do people see us as "Bad for Business?"
Because in some cases it is. And it can be more expensive for the company, more difficult for them. And alters your insurance for the worse. Not saying these are good reasons and should be a thing, but it's sometimes the truth.
@@ledjeet2985 maybe, but I have a hard time seeing how I can demand that my employer suffers just because I have some sort of personal difficulty. Every right is also a demand for someone else and that makes it difficult sometimes to know what to think.
@@AimingAtYou lmao what are you talking about. Giving other people rights doesn't take away from yours. There's no a middle ground, you either think people with disabilities deserved to be treated equal or not.
@@Andreaalvarcila not what I said. And yes everyone should have the same right, and that right in this example is "you have the right to get hired for all jobs you are able to do".
I think that something important to talk about in regards to videos on the subject of ableism is the lack of closed captions available. The auto generated captions are helpful but frequently make mistakes. I consistently see talks and video essays like this without any captioning. This is not to discredit the speaker at all and is more probably the fault of the TEDx channel in general but certainly something that is very important.
Excellent talk on ableism. My favourite point was near the beginning when he said that "ableism one the last socially acceptable forms of discrimination." This spoke to my lived experience as a paraplegic.
What you said about fighting constantly to overcome your disability- I relate. Because we live in an ableist society, people tend to make you feel there's something wrong with you, rather than just having a different life experience. Most people are ableist and think they're not. They think they're super inclusive. Offering help, but being the opposite of helpful. It's these types of people that make the world feel like a hostile and isolating place. Your reference to Stephen Hawking made me think about how I feel I have to be exceptional in some domain in order to compensate for my disability. Otherwise I am just a burden.
@@sharonjensen3016 But it’s a totally different form of discrimination. And I don’t know where exactly you live, but where I come from, women are not discriminated. Women can do everything men can do and don’t need any extra special care, unlike disabled people, who need special traffic lights or ramps, for example. So you can passively discriminate disabled people by not helping them, but you would to actively do something to discriminate women. Like forbidding or forcing them to do things. And society views disability as something that is not normal. Unless you’re living in Freud‘s head, nobody thinks it’s not normal to be a woman.
but hey, i know lets put a guy in the wheel chair out and be a fireman, wow such a great idea save so many people lives, oh wait people on the second floor died cause he couldn't do his job. Oh well.
@@shivenrege6780 , I'm sorry but the rhetoric of aggressive anti-ableism activism is implying stuff exactly like that! >:-( Denying the very discriminating nature of the known universe! Some beings on this planet survive, some don't! The world of animals discriminates! Why are people so psychotically arrogant about their existence compared to animals?
no one is asking to do a job for which they're not qualified, only for the right to do the job for which they are qualified. your ignorance and hate clearly got in the way of you being rationale. who do YOU know that's in a wheelchair that wants to be a firefighter?
@@jcp1984again Ah, I used to think exactly the same way as you. Couldn’t understand how anyone could argue against nature like that. Then I learnt about prehistory and gained a much better understanding of evolution. It is then that I realised what I had considered ‘disability’ was in many cases evolution in action, and that it was in fact a very beautiful thing. As a species we need to pay appropriate respect to those who we perceive as ‘disabled’ because they are a crucially important part of our improvement as a whole. Hope that makes sense. One day I just ‘got it’. 🤗
Most people with physical disabilities [which require physical aids and the such] understand the limits of their body. A man in a wheelchair understands it's not in his interest to take up a job that requires rigorous lower-body physical activity! A good example of ableism, though, would be how companies often don't hire those with any sort of disability due to it being "unprofessional" and "looking bad."