"We don't serve wheelchairs"

When Sir Bert Massie, former Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), spoke of a time when service providers were simply able to state 'we don't serve wheelchairs' he likened it to shops that put signs in their windows saying 'no blacks or Irish'.

These are both phrases that we would be shocked to come across nowadays, but that also highlight that these minority groups were not even treated as human. Instead, referring to disabled people as 'wheelchairs' simply objectified them in... (478 more words)

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