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Malica@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Stuff like this enables bullying of disabled people. Sometimes they can walk, but only so far. Invisible disabilities suck so much. There’s always a Karen than thinks you only need a wheel chair if you’re paralyzed and that’s simply not the case.
It’s a tricky line to walk.
On the one hand, you are absolutely right that ability to hobble over a few feet from your chair does not mean the chair is obviously not needed.
On the other, wheelchairs are a very popular prop for grifting folks.
It’s pretty damn near impossible to make an informed judgement on such a matter in an instant, and lots of people do exploit that.
Let’s assume that people massively want to cheat (unfortunately, they don’t, and a lot of people die because of this); let’s say 9 people on 10 are cheating. Are you okay to discriminate one handy because you don’t want to be scam ?
You just making him/her pay because of your ego. To rephrase it : one many disabled people are you okay to discriminated because you don’t want to be scammed ?
Okay let’s levelup; if someone is cheating, maybe this one has a better idea of the reason he has to do it than you are.
No. It isn’t.
So it’s easy, which path did you like, giving anyone with access to a prop wheelchair however much they are trying to get out of you, or denying aid to anyone that ever managed to get up out of a wheelchair, however briefly?
Wow, you really thought you were cooking with that one.
Here’s a thought: if someone’s in a wheelchair, presume it’s useful to them to get around.
There’s no step 2.
daannii@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Someone shamed some old vet beggar who would sit in a wheelchair by a known intersection in town.
He was missing a leg.
Someone posted on some community FB page , photos of the guy standing and bending down or something.
And people were going crazy saying he was a faker for asking for money.
Dude was a vet who lost his leg.
He wasn’t paralyzed. He never said he was.
He is in the chair because he can’t walk much.
Doesn’t mean he can’t stand at all.
Idk. But yeah it’s a common misconception that only paralyzed people need wheel chairs.
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Terrible. I bet they all had “support our troops” and those stupid yellow ribbons on their cars.