There's been massive organizing on this specific issue too, which led to the NFB vs Uber lawsuit, which succeeded Maybe you should educate yourself on this history before going off about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmJaeCaer and
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 @arthur_affect and
It's an answer to a problem that you never could have devised nor implemented. You think it's insufficient, but you are wrong because it made the world a little bit better for disabled people. Why do you begrudge us that? Why are we so low on your list of priorities?
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
I’m literally trying to fight for a model that makes sure this never happens again.
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You don't seem to quite grasp what "this" is, since you seem to think what went wrong here is "Uber didn't send a WAV when this person said they were disabled" and not "Uber had an ableist choad driving for them who didn't want dog hair on his seats"
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