Gal Gadot reprimanded by the disabled over kind words for Stephen Hawking

There should be a warroom thread about trump saying soenhring about hawking
 
St0neHand5 said:
Does this culture include music?
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Deaf people do go to concerts actually, because they can feel the vibrations of the music and like the energy of all the people.

At some concerts you'll see someone designated to sign the lyrics.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Deaf people do go to concerts actually, because they can feel the vibrations of the music and like the energy of all the people.

At some concerts you'll see someone designated to sign the lyrics.
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<{chips}>It was intended to be a joke.
 
Halge said:
"Ableist"?

"ABELIST"???
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I subscribe to an academic e-mail list that puts out calls for papers for conferences, journal issues, edited anthologies, etc. I got one the other day for some conference and the CFP mentioned the problem of "ableism." The only thing that shocks me these days with shit like that is that there's still shit that can shock me. I don't even know how to respond to crazy shit like that.

 
shadow_priest_x said:
I imagine it should depend on what death means to the speaker. It sounds like Gal here might be coming from a spiritual perspective, where she thinks that one day we'll ALL be free of the shackles of the physical body. It's just that Hawking got there before the rest of us.
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BisexualMMA said:
The thing is, she's not stating that he'd be better off dead. When someone passes, people frequently express the sentiment that they are free of whatever burdened or limited them or caused them pain in life. At least this guy who was wrongfully convicted isn't in prison anymore. At least this woman with bone cancer isn't suffering anymore.

I understand that everyone needs to find a way to get through life with whatever mountains and burdens and challenges lay ahead of them. But there's a difference between "you are free of constraint X" and "you're better off dead." If someone believes in heaven, then they probably believe Dr. Hawking isn't traversing it in a wheelchair.
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I think you're both right, and I don't think Gal Gadot is necessarily taking that attitude, but I also think it's fair to see how someone who might have a physical disability and see Stephen Hawking as an inspiration for being a shining example of someone with a physical disability who proves that said disability doesn't mean he can't make a huge contribution to society might take it that way, especially with the focus of him being free of his "physical constraints" as opposed to any number of other constraints that he is presumably also now free of.

The reality is that it's not possible to never offend anyone by accident, and I don't think the right response to that is that people should stop expressing themselves when they are offended. 99% of the time, all it takes to resolve something like this is to say, "Oh, that's a good point. Sorry, I didn't mean it that way." More communication is better, not less.
 
Ah Man said:
The reality is that it's not possible to never offend anyone by accident, and I don't think the right response to that is that people should stop expressing themselves when they are offended. 99% of the time, all it takes to resolve something like this is to say, "Oh, that's a good point. Sorry, I didn't mean it that way." More communication is better, not less.
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I guess, to me, it seems like many people these days WANT to be offended. Like, couldn't any thinking person give five seconds of thought to what Gadot said and understand what she meant?

It's hard for me to see this as anything more than people seeing an opening to get a complaint in, even though they know the complaint is disingenuous.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Apparently they also took offense to this image:








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This dude is retarded. Stephen Hawkins would probably be the first to tell you it fucking sucked to be stuck in his wheelchair after he got sick. They even made a movie about it lol
 
If a deaf child is cured of their deafness and you congratulate them on overcoming that you will get certain people raging that being deaf is not a deficiency that needs to be cured and suggesting you are bigoted towards deaf people.

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that said however the people raging are rarely the people impacted. It is typically Pooboo's raging in almost all instances on behalf of people they feel they are defending.

People
Offended
On
Behalf
Of
Others


Pooboo's.
 
Lethal said:
Seems like a lot of people on Twitter just look for things to get offended about.
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Oh so ALS doesn't debilitate people, according to Twitter health experts

Great, let's see those ALS victims get out of a chair on their own.

I've met a few people with ALS (a few of which succumbed to it and it was tragic to see), and it definitely constrains them. But hey, the armchair PhDs on Twitter know better.

I'm glad I'm not on Twitter or Facebook because people would be hating on me hard right now for not following the SJW modus operandi
 
People choose to be offended by the dumbest shit.
 
Yeah, I'm sure if Mr. Hawking was given the chance to be free of his crippling disability (without dying), he would say 'no thanks bro, I've changed the world plenty with it! Not holding me back at all'
 
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