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> All the social model aims to do is think about a separation of the impairment itself and the ways in which society may make it worse. The aim is merely a cha
by aethertron 6y ago
> All the social model aims to do is think about a separation of the impairment itself and the ways in which society may make it worse.
The aim is merely a change in thinking? I'm pretty sure one aim is to get more resources to support disabled (or impaired) people. And that's fine. We live in a society.
What's not fine is the rhetorical trickery (motivated redefinitions of words) deployed as part of the SM.
- JohnBooty 6y agoIt's a bleak, paranoid take to feel that people are attempting "trickery" when raising issues like these. It is not a redefinition of the word "disabled" -- it is a reexamination of what actually leads to a person being "disabled."