Edited | Lin Ya
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Cognitive disability is more frightening than physical disability.
"People with disabilities don't go out, the world is not for you"
"Disabled people, don't go out to add chaos to society"
"People with disabilities should be treated with the survival of the fittest"...
Recently, a netizen named "Blind Detective - Little Dragon Egg" shared the inconvenience he encountered when taking the elevator on the short video platform, which accidentally caused a lot of waves on the Internet.
The video shows a blind blogger standing in an elevator without voice announcements and Braille signs, making it impossible for him to determine which floor he's on. Therefore, the blogger laughed awkwardly and said, "Oh, it's too difficult" and "I hope that the elevator in public places will be more humane in the future." However, it is such a record of daily life that makes him a lesson by netizens in the comment area. These harsh remarks have added to the sadness of the disabled group, which is already full of scars.
Blind road, busy road?
"Blind Detective - Little Dragon Egg" itself is a practitioner of the barrier-free industry and a beneficiary of accessibility, he let more people understand the daily travel of disabled groups by sharing short videos, and called on the public to help disabled groups and promote the process of accessibility.
In daily life, disabled people do encounter some difficulties in traveling, such as the elevator mentioned in the video has no language broadcast or Braille prompts, the blind road is blocked by other building facilities, and there are shared bicycles and cars on the blind road.
And this kind of chaos of blind people's inconvenience does exist in some places:
A blind road of about 150 meters in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, was paved into an "eighteen-bend"; a blind road in Kunming's Wuhua District, just 300 meters, encountered more than 30 obstacles; Shanxi Taiyuan traffic police dressed as blind people with guide dogs were driven away on the bus...
Public service facilities are supposed to provide convenience for the disabled, and the above phenomenon is probably to add obstacles to the disabled groups. As far as the blind road is concerned, the blind road is not a decoration, but a real need for blind friends. "There is everything on the blind road, that is, there is no blind person", if the blind friends in a city do not dare to take the blind road, it will be the sadness of the city.
Humanistic care for the disabled cannot stay on paper. Road construction must be with blind lanes, but laying blind lanes must not just be a show, blind lane design and management should really stand in the perspective of blind people. Caring for the disabled should make way for the blind road, and do not let the blind road become a "busy" road.
Everyone
All have equal rights and live with dignity
And when bloggers actively cultivate blind paths on the Internet, they also have to be gagged by people with the sentence "It is not worth wasting social resources for a few people".
Some netizens in the comment area hide in hidden and dark corners, using keyboards to arbitrarily output "values" that they think are correct. "The world is not for you" exposes the lofty posture of this part of the people, drawing a clear line between themselves and the disabled. In their cognition, if a society provides enough convenience for people with disabilities, it will waste too many resources and sacrifice too much efficiency, so "normal people" do not have to pay for the inconvenience of the disabled.
The essence of man is the sum of all social relations, which means that no one can be separated from social existence, a normal society includes normal people and disabled people, so the existence of public resources is to provide convenience for the disabled, to facilitate society. From a practical point of view, countries and regions that do better in accessibility are usually more developed and wealthy.
Treating people with disabilities gently will not only not drag down the progress of society, but is the purpose and symbol of social progress.
This society is not a jungle where the weak eat the strong, and we cannot simply apply the law of the jungle to the real society, let alone divide our compatriots into three, six, nine, and so on with any conjured standardization. And this part of the comment area, "spiritually superior", divides people into three, six, nine, etc., which is undoubtedly to highlight their full sense of superiority. Even more frightening than superiority is their way of thinking, which follows an extremely primitive logic of abandoning the weak and, more cruelly, "survival of the fittest." People with this kind of understanding are pitiful, because they do not realize that these words are harmful to others, and they do not realize that one day they may also become part of the "weak". And when these people become the "weak" who need to be protected, can they be "eliminated"?
Everyone has the right to live with equal rights and dignity.
A retired disabled soldier in Jilin tried to buy a half-price ticket on a bus according to the regulations, but was rejected by the flight attendant and insulted by "the certificate is not good, if you can't afford to live, don't live", the words reveal the arrogance and ignorance of the flight attendant. In our lives, netizens like flight attendants and bloggers who make bad remarks in their comments are a minority, but these few people lack basic respect for people, thinking and examining the value of life, but instead make themselves "jokes" on the Internet. In other words, cognitive disability is more frightening than physical disability.
What should be eliminated is imperfect products, imperfect environments and inherent biased thinking towards disabled groups.
Don't let anger replace thinking!
Disability is not the same as disability. Those who clamor for "survival of the fittest" feel that people with disabilities waste society's resources, but they do not know that they are also working hard for themselves and contributing to society.
People with disabilities can play games, go out, or take videos themselves... As long as public facilities and technology companies are well thought out at the beginning of the design, they can live no differently than ordinary people. As far as the blind blogger is concerned, he is a lecturer at the Shenzhen Accessibility Research Association, and he often goes to various Internet companies to do accessibility training. Realizing the dreams of people with disabilities is difficult, but not impossible.
Recently, there have been many stories interpreting "my life is up to me": Duan Erqiang, a 36-year-old disabled person in Shijiazhuang Xinle, used poetry and cartoons to soothe his wounds and interpret an inspirational life; Ang Ziyu, the only blind college entrance examination student in Anhui Province, was admitted to the Central University for Nationalities with 635 points; Shenyang "Pompeii disease" boy received an admission letter from Nankai University with 662 points in the college entrance examination...
In ancient and modern China and abroad, there are many famous figures with disabilities who have achieved great achievements by their own efforts: Sun Bin, a militarist with disabilities in the Warring States period, Zhang Haidi, a famous Chinese writer with paraplegia, Stephen William Hawking, a physicist suffering from Lugaret's disease, Beethoven, a deaf musician with ill-fated fate, Helen Keller, the most famous writer in the United States and educator, blind and deaf...
The story of people with disabilities is not only "inspirational". In contemporary society, the right to travel, the right to work, and the right to enjoy happiness should not be exclusive to able-bodied people. These stories are not just isolated incidents, they represent an idea: people with disabilities, like us, are working hard for their dreams! Our infrastructure and public services should be designed for all, not for "us" and "you."
The more developed and progressive the society, the more capable it is to provide sufficient convenience for people with disabilities, so that they can feel the love and warmth of the whole society, rather than discriminating against the eyes, let alone turn the disabled into a different kind, and the disabled also have the full right to participate in normal social life.
(Reference: Guangming Daily, The Paper, Red Star News, etc.)