[Everyone] Disabled Peoples' Day

[Paul]

Arranging Tuesday is becoming a real hassle. If I'd have known, I'd never had started in the first place. You try to do some good in the world and it gets thrown back in your face. I could be doing a nice apprentice but no, I get dragged into this place where I lose a leg, get confined to a wheel chair then hit hurdles all the way trying to raise some awareness of how hard it is being a 'Disabled Person'. Do any of you realise how hard it is living with one leg and constantly hitting hurdles? 

Phil, you send me all this lawyers stuff which I can't understand a word of. Am I supposed to do something? I'm really feeling down.

If anyone needs me today I'll be in my lift.

Paul
EOaHaSD


-----Original Message-----
From:   On Behalf Of Phil
Sent: 22 May 2009 09:55
To: Everyone in the office
Subject: [Everyone] Disabled Peoples' Day

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.


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