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In reply to the discussion: Gal Gadots Seemingly Innocent Tribute To Stephen Hawking Pissed Off Some People [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)66. Thank you.
This thread has been eye opening - and the post to which you are responding was the first in this thread to leave me shaking my head.
I was gobsmacked that someone on DU would not be acquainted with ableism. Then I kept reading. I'm glad you spoke up.
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Gal Gadots Seemingly Innocent Tribute To Stephen Hawking Pissed Off Some People [View all]
Proud liberal 80
Mar 2018
OP
That critique of Gal is right down there with the one we had here slamming the people who...
Hekate
Mar 2018
#6
Excellent post-- it's amazing how some people can take a simple thought and turn it around.
TreasonousBastard
Mar 2018
#9
People who point out that something is offensive are NOT responsible for others' hateful responses
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#138
And I'd buy this excuse if you'd directed your "fuck them" to the people you felt attacked her
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#142
Then YOU climb up on a billboard, risking YOUR personal safety & itchy-fingered cops...
Hekate
Mar 2018
#49
Im surprised to see the opinions of disabled people attacked on a liberal discussion board
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#130
She's not the only one. Lots of people were making ablist assumptions about what it means to
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#3
Why are objections from people *living with ALS* or *similar to how Hawking lived* seen as being
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#17
But even then one can't take a single similarly affected individual's opinion...
moriah
Mar 2018
#22
But that just show how people can not transcend base tribal instincts with a moment of compassion.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2018
#75
Anyone who won't admit that being almost completely paralyzed is a shitty way to live...
phleshdef
Mar 2018
#23
I have seen a person in a wheelchair get really upset when someone opened a door for her.
tblue37
Mar 2018
#113
Everyone's "soul" is "bound" by their earthly body, but you don't often see those images in
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#32
Except by Shakespeare, Twain, Euripides, Margaret Cavendish, Dostoevsky...
LanternWaste
Mar 2018
#40
I'm getting the idea that your definition of outrage and mine are a little different.
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#45
He had physical constraints like none of us can even imagine. A man with such great knowledge,
Doodley
Mar 2018
#35
Nobody is saying that. Do not assume the worst possible interpretation when somebody gives respect
Doodley
Mar 2018
#114
I have not seen any messages that say that. Are you trying to find the worst messages, or are
Doodley
Mar 2018
#115
That is your interpretation. I don't see it that way at all. I doubt the artist intended it to
Doodley
Mar 2018
#128
His wheel chair was not representative of his disability as much as it was his greatness
Tiggeroshii
Mar 2018
#133
Christ, as someone who pushed my FIL's wheelchair for 3 years, that's BS. I think her statement
Hoyt
Mar 2018
#55
Now I'm glad I didn't post the first thing that came into my mind when I heard the news
Generic Brad
Mar 2018
#68
We end up with good people not offering to help people who might need help, or good people
Doodley
Mar 2018
#117
Nowadays you need a script stating how not to offend any given person on any given occasion.
VOX
Mar 2018
#139
I thought she was trying her best to say something wonderful about a wonderful man...
Ferrets are Cool
Mar 2018
#131