If there is an oppressive attitude towards disabled people what can be done about it?

Question

This is about bringing change, and yes i am doing piece of work on the oppression of disabled people

Answer 1

I think it all starts earlier than one suspects. I am appalled at the way in which children use the term "spastic" as an insult. What are they learning at home to be so insensitive? It doesn't get better. I was once in a position where I needed to recruit a typist and I suggested to Human Resources that perhaps this was a job which might be made available to a disabled person who might otherwise find it hard to gain employment. I encountered bafflement. "Any particular disability?" I was asked. I have a son who has been disabled since the age of twelve. He is hoping for a job worthy of his very considerable intellectual skills, but he keeps his disability well concealed when job hunting. He has seen too much of people's attitudes. In many ways, we still live in the jungle.

Answer 2

Those who have oppressive attitude towards these peoples, must be thrown out to the society and disabled persons must have a respective position in the society, after all they are also the part of our society.

Please Do favor the disabled peoples, and participate in the 3rd December's World Disabled Day.

Answer 3

I don't think it is about oppression per se. I think it is based on a certain level of ignorance.
With the International Day of the Disabled coming up I will once again have the pupils in my centre taking part in The disABILITY Games.
We essentially make the able bodied students disabled and then let them try and compete against their able bodied and minded co students. Different disabilities for different games. Sometimes they are blindfolded, sometimes have to wear airport runway ear protectors, sometimes their hands are bound closed or sometimes they are wheelchair bound.
The games of Use the Remote Control or Go To the Toilet ( with your fingers bound into your palms) are always real eye openers as are making them take to the streets and parks in wheelchairs.
We as able bodied and minded people simply haven't got a clue what life is like for the disabled amongst us.
Schools have to make it a very real part of the curriculum for things to really change.

Answer 4

It's very difficult to change people's feelings. You can make it illegal to discriminate, but you can't legislate respect. (Would someone please explain that to Tony Blair).

People generally feel threatened by those who are different to themselves. That's why we have racism, religious intolerance and an oppressive attitude to disabled people. Education helps, but there is no solution.

Answer 5

I was seriously injured back in '04 and have noticed how people that new me before have changed how they treat me. I also see anything from pity to condensation ( both piss me off). I'm not visible disfigured but do walk with a limp and must use a cane . I don't want anything from anyone,I may be a gimp now but I'm still alive...

Answer 6

Disabled people must be given respect, more social welfare benefits and more opportunities in permissive jobs. Violators must be penalized under the law.

Answer 7

kill the oppressors -- oppressors don't just pick disabled to oppress they oppress us all. back on big gay al's boat ride for you.

Answer 8

They could be rounded up and put into camps.