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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 13:23:16 JST Alexandre Oliva the way our societies are heading WRT requiring all humans to carry portable telescreens running freedom-depriving software, it creates essentially two new artificial disabilities that should probably be contemplated in future issues of the paralympic games:
- those who refuse to carry such devices end up facing insurmountable accessibility barriers, and being denied essential and nonessential public and private services because of the artificial disability imposed on them, namely, missing an artificial appendage that, to ableist eyes, turn them into subhuman
- those who agree to carry them end up deprived of another invaluable and essential feature that humans have historically pursued, fought for and even died for. having their freedom taken away, they endure another artificial disability, that is horribly debilitating, but whose normalization is well underway despite its being a mostly invisible disability.
after this development, every person has become a person with disability, so the olympic and paralympic games are expected to merge-
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screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 02:56:16 JST screwlisp @lxo the metaphor is a little confusing but there is electricity in what you wrote.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 03:00:44 JST Alexandre Oliva using that term was indeed intended to provoke such inquiries
if you choose to amputate a limb, would that not result in a disability?
does it matter if it was because of an injury, a cancer, or entirely voluntary solidarity for your partner?
conversely, if pretty much everyone ends up with a similar disability, is it still a disability? -
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Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 03:00:45 JST Nemo_bis 🌈 @lxo I agree with the general spirit but I'm not sure how I feel about using the term disability. If you can agree/choose not to have it, is it a disability? OTOH, if you're forced, are you really agreeing/choosing? Perhaps it's a "deviance".
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