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SophiePeople can't tell me that it's not possible to make the world accessible for disabled people, after the whole world has been made accessible to cars.
@iveyline@sophie My lovely wife has MS and very limited mobility. There are few options other than taking her out by car to appointments and to meet people. What is sad are those people who park illegally in mobility car parks and those authorities that make access to many places impossible for seriously disabled people.
@Iveyline Yes, cars can be a great tool for accessibility. But as you say, it's often made difficult or impossible to be used by disabled people. Often, it's also especially disabled people that can't afford a car or a taxi.
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Matt Elliott@sophie Go camping and you will find out this isn't true. And not that thing where you drive up in a RV, that isn't camping.
echo@sophie
1) only the urban/suburban world is made accessible to cars. This is a very small slice of the world and one the world could/do without. De-emphasis of cars starts with the dismantling of cities.
2) cars have created disability moreso than any other thing before or since. The civilized's dependence on cars is at their own expense, and their subsequent dismissal of those disabled by cars betrays their ONLY concern: productivity. Cars good, cripples bad, because all must be productive or be removed. Civilization is a genocide engine before anything else.
1) only the urban/suburban world is made accessible to cars. This is a very small slice of the world and one the world could/do without. De-emphasis of cars starts with the dismantling of cities.
2) cars have created disability moreso than any other thing before or since. The civilized's dependence on cars is at their own expense, and their subsequent dismissal of those disabled by cars betrays their ONLY concern: productivity. Cars good, cripples bad, because all must be productive or be removed. Civilization is a genocide engine before anything else.
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smoking ππ£π¦πΎπ with 'ilu@echo maybe this is a regional thing but in Canada the rural world is just as structured around car access as the urban/suburban world, if not more
Claudius
Mind Shambles@sophie putting up barriers to accessibility is so common place. Accessible things rarely cost more than older versions of things when designed in from the start. It is a concious choice to exclude people, and shows that regardless of a companies stated values, It is not really all about the customer, its about money, and lack if integrity and decency