[Everyone] Disabled Peoples' Day
Phil
Fri May 22 08:54:54 GMT 2009
Hi all,
A memo has been sent round the executive executive's rung from the
company lawyers to the effect that the term "Disabled Day" could be
construed as offensive in this enlightened day and age.
Please refer to next Tuesday as "Disabled People's Day" instead.
Related events should be renamed similarly, eg "Disabled Peoples'
Olympics".
Here's the pertinent excerpt from the summary of the lawyers' report's
annex:
"In the UK, the term 'disabled people' is generally preferred to
'people with disabilities'. It is argued under the social model that
while someone's impairment (e.g. having a spinal cord injury) is an
individual property, 'disability' is something created by external
societal factors such as a lack of wheelchair access to their
workplace.[4]. This distinction between the individual property of
impairment and the social property of disability is central to the
social model. The term 'disabled people' as a political construction
is also widely used by international organisations of disabled people,
such as Disabled Peoples' International (DPI)."
So, let's all look forward to Disabled Peoples' Day! (Paul, please get
the t-shirts, posters, pens and window stickers re-printed.)
Dziękuję.
--
Phil BA(Hons)
VP of Visioning Management and Corporate Resourcing
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