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Disabled15

(60 posts)

19. Seattle?

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #16)

Fri Aug 14, 2015, 01:28 PM

Aug 2015

Hello Uppityperson are you in Seattle?
If you, or anyone else, in Seattle area are passionate about disability rights, please contact me.
I am new on here, but I believe you can send me a private message.
I am trying to get a group together.
Thanks!

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Please stop making disabled people invisible [View all] Shankapotomus Aug 2015 OP

Is there an impetus for this post? Politicub Aug 2015 #1

The irony is that the OP is complaining about the same "spectrum" whatthehey Aug 2015 #3

^This /nt Shankapotomus Aug 2015 #4

Disabled people ought to become more militant in demand equal rights meow2u3 Aug 2015 #2

Damn Right! Tell it to the hearing impaired The Green Manalishi Aug 2015 #5

Yep. The disabled can get it from all sides at once Shankapotomus Aug 2015 #7

You're absolutely right Shankapotomus Aug 2015 #6

Yes I feel very invisible unless I'm in public and being stared at Disabled15 Aug 2015 #8

The fact that you haven't posted here before Shankapotomus Aug 2015 #10

Yes, new here Disabled15 Aug 2015 #12

Ps Disabled15 Aug 2015 #14

Welcome to DU Depaysement Aug 2015 #26

+1 My disabled brother and my disabled daughter are both severely jwirr Aug 2015 #24

You're right, it's not true kcr Aug 2015 #9

White Privilege Is Real Shankapotomus Aug 2015 #11

No, white privilege is meaningless to you because you are confused as to what it is. kcr Aug 2015 #13

So is able-bodied and neurotypical* privilege meow2u3 Aug 2015 #15

That is not quite right. White privilege is dependent on skin color. Period. uppityperson Aug 2015 #17

While you have a point about making disabled people invisible, you seem to be confused as to what uppityperson Aug 2015 #16

Seattle? Disabled15 Aug 2015 #19

I know I still have to answer you, uppity. Shankapotomus Aug 2015 #20

Thanks for the long reply. I think we are pretty much in agreement, just discussing it uppityperson Aug 2015 #21

Better yet, let's not make *anyone* invisible. WillowTree Aug 2015 #18

That's not what white privilege is. NuclearDem Aug 2015 #22

This is the perfect explanation, IMO. DawgHouse Aug 2015 #25

I am not disabled, but my mother is. I completely support visibility for the disabled! nt LostOne4Ever Aug 2015 #23

Poster re the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilites Act DinahMoeHum Aug 2015 #27