And, in fact, the long-term push to have Uber be regarded as an employer and not a mere service provider to drivers has the NFB lawsuit as a milestone It was Uber arguing the plaintiff's demands could be satisfied without opening the question of their core business model
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
If it turns out they can't - and NFB considers enforcement of the settlement an open issue and one of their primary organizing issues, and asks people to submit reports of ADA violations as well as sending out test riders - then it opens again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
ADA compliance shouldn't be seen as a "wedge issue" to address other concerns, it is a moral priority in its own right But it absolutely is a very powerful such wedge issue More visibility of these violations via viral tweets and videos etc is very very good
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
This is insufficient! Because not every disabled person has 20k followers on Twitter! Not every person who gets assaulted in a rideshare gets to have accountability!
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Replying to @surplusvalmeal @arthur_affect and
I'm disabled and I don't have 20K followers on Twitter. Which is why I'm extremely glad people who are disabled and have 20K followers can speak up on issues that affect disabled people and get some things changed. You're arguing disabled people shouldn't use their clout.
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
Why are disabled people different and we shouldn't use our clout? Are you next going to argue that Colin Kaepernick shouldn't use his fame to bring attention to police violence against black people because not every black person is a famous football player?
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
That’s totally a great way to use your platform if you have it! But most don’t and is an insufficient answer to this problem
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Replying to @surplusvalmeal @WenSchw and
Okay, but it's a good thing when they do There's no reason at all to oppose or criticize the original passenger for doing it or other people for cheering them on Which is absolutely what you did and really are still doing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
Fucking liberal brain disorder. Focusing on the actions of an individual instead of trying to tackle the larger systemic issues that made this a problem in the first place.
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Replying to @surplusvalmeal @WenSchw and
Class-first concern trolling - everything that isn't the specific action you want (like getting Uber drivers who violate the ADA to join a union so they can have a union rep to argue for them that they didn't violate the ADA) is "individualism"
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The NFB class-action lawsuit was, in fact, a collective action and in the battle against libertarian big tech it's one of the most successful ones we've seen in recent years, even if it obviously doesn't go far enough
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