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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Replying to @surplusvalmeal @WenSchw and
Unless the union you envision has mind-control powers, 'this' will still happen, because the issue wasn't 'Didn't have the ability to take the wheelchair' (which you ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED), it's 'ableist didn't want to pick up a disabled person'.
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @WenSchw and
Unless the union possesses The Sight, able to peer into the hearts of men, only allowing the noble and pure and good into their profession this will still happen.
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There is a very high chance that, without disability activists et al keeping their eye on the ball during the whole process, a union *would* go to bat for drivers accused of ADA violations and make reporting harder Because guys like this would be organizing it
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