Social Justice vs actual accessibility and change
Students are being forced into social justice models I see that this is driven from the top down and it's making things worse for the students but in the "social justice," framework there is one large population that is massively being left behind and this is the disabled community.
This is because it is very had to do a higher education degree when you have disabilities and most people with disabilities area actively discouraged from going to university and go to community college or tafe instead or straight into supported workplaces.
I know in most Universities they do have a disability services department, however as Dr Jorden Peterson pointed out it has become an department in and of it's self that they students are the ones that suffer, I see that this is an issue due to the fact that they are the ones asking for help and it used to be a private agreement with the professor or teacher and the student.
The Disability Bureaucracy Wants Your Soul | Jordan Peterson (alphavoice.io)
Then it didn't impact other students as well, but they could benefit and most lecturer's I have seen on reddit actually resent having to do what the disability department asks due to the fact that they don't understand why they need to do it.
However what would the world of higher education look like if the departments where mobility aid accessible, that there was an ability to record the lectures instead of taking notes to have a computer to type an exam instead of having to write it down.
We also are seeing that the "social justice," activists are actively excluding people with disabilities in the diversity conversation, due to if they where included in the conversation we need to ask what would the social justice people do if they had to confront the fact that real diversity actually includes the most marinized people and that does include people with a disablity and there families.
However this goes against there world views in a very fundamental way they don't want traditional family values, they want us to become there family, without understanding the impact that this will have on people with disabilities that are vulnerable because they just want to fit in, somewhere.
So when looking at this objectly I see no issue with having people of color represented on screen or gay families but when they are shoving oppression down our throats without understanding the way we have had to fight for our rights and even to be included in the basic conversation they take for granted. The right to have equal access to medical care, the right to education and inclusion, the right to spaces that they can be themselves and run by them not for them are all things that we are still fighting for and people are bickering over how oppressed they are because someone won't call them the right pro nouns.
It becomes a bit ridiculous when they don't want someone to tell the truth the bibliology is real, and dox independent film makers because it doesn't serve there agenda. However if we see someone portray disablity in an accurate light it is very rare and I have had to go searching for it and it apart from coda and white frog seems to fall into the super hero trope, or the super power trope but this isn't the truth, also by having people minimize the struggle that people with "hidden" disabilities go through by often thoughtless comments it shows how little unless you have been around it how offensive those comments can be and how they need to be watched.
Your not all ADHD because you can't focus, your not OCD because you like your place clean, these conditions have a massive impact on peoples lives and we need to be aware of this and this is a part of social justice to stand up for this and to kindly educate people on this and how it's not ok to say stuff like this.
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