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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Awesome. So you're saying that those who are disabled should either shut up and stop whining about the fact that nobody is willing to do anything for them unless they pay extra as a penalty for being blind, or be accused (by you) of being a "socialist"? Why exactly should they care what you think about them?
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I don't see how you got anything like that from what I wrote, unless colored by your own prejudices. There are disabled people who don't want special treatment and those who do; they are no different from you or I.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
The whole point of affirmative action legislation for blind (and otherwise disabled people; however, those aren't really pertinent to this discussion) is that corporations/companies/yada frequently refuse to make their establishments/products/etc. available. If the market worked, there wouldn't need to be legislation.
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Unfortunately, in the case of the treaty being discussion, those who DO make those products available are still being hurt. That's part of what makes this particular proposal a bad one. It's a pure canard to suggest that every law labeled "affirmative action" is a de facto good one, and that an opposition to it is therefore prejudicial.
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Of course it doesn't. Do you have any idea what it would cost to have to provide accessible copies of any and every title?
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Do you have
any idea what it cost to make all businesses wheelchair accessible?
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Also, restaurant analogies are worthless here.
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How convenient.