Tom Shakespeare: disabled people face medical and social barriers

Leading disability scholar reflects on progress of discipline and key obstacles ahead

Published on
August 6, 2018
Last updated
August 7, 2018
Tom Shakespeare

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Print headline: ‘It’s complicated. Disabled people face medical and social barriers’

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Dear Mr. Reisz, (1) Since the time of ancient Greece the majority of disabled persons across the entire world have been unable to figure out an effective way to work together in any capacity for the common good of every disabled person. (1.1) A few examples of this today are as follows: - there is no disabled person(s) on the home page of University of East Anglia; and - there is no student club for disabled students at the University of East Anglia. (2) The key individuals who cause the "most" suffering for disabled persons across the entire world are judges and politicians because they make and interpret the laws of the land. (3) Few disabled persons are aware that UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is nothing but a "promise" which was signed by the exact same "indifferent" above-noted judges and politicians to trick the majority of disabled persons into believing that they y care about the average disabled person anywhere on this planet. Nothing could be further from the truth!!! (4) The only choice left today for the majority of disabled persons across the world is to live in their own country where they can appoint their own "disabled" judges, elect their own "disabled" politicians and pass laws which will protect "their" interests because waiting for "any" judge or politician anywhere on this planet today to do the right thing for disabled persons has been a complete and utter waste of time since the time of ancient Greece and even more so in 2018!!! (5) In the meantime the majority of disabled persons will sadly continue to suffer unnecessarily because those disabled persons with the talent to make a real difference for the most part "must" continue to only take care of themselves and their own families to ensure their "own" survival! (6) In sum, for the majority of disabled persons across the world they must accept that the only way they can survive in the world today is to operate from a "survival of fittest mindset" from "birth to death" regardless of the severity of their respective disabilities because they cannot depend upon a "fellow disabled person" nor any judge and politician on this planet to come to their rescue in their hour of need! (7) The very last organization a disabled person should consult today for help is a non-profit for disabled persons because they are run by predominantly non-disabled persons who are funded you guessed it by the same indifferent judges and politicians across the entire world. That is why DPO/DPULO are not legal in England because if they were then every disabled person would have somewhere to work, get help, get a loan, learn how to start a business, and so on. If you read the following article you will understand why this so. Oliver comes out of retirement to deliver stinging rebuke to ‘parasite’ charities John Pring, Disability News Service, November 30, 2017 https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/oliver-comes-out-of-retirement-to-deliver-stinging-rebuke-to-parasite-charities/ Signed, DSmith P.S. Perhaps one day the World University Rankings will decide to include a category for disabled persons because the current non-disabled rankings are totally unsuitable for evaluating a university from a disabled person's perspective.

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