[Everyone] Re: Disabled Peoples' Day

Ben
Fri May 22 09:31:48 GMT 2009


What's Polish for disableds?



2009/5/22 Phil 

> 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)
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