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goku12last Thursday at 10:15 AM4 repliesview on HN

So what next? Wheelchair ramps? Seats for the elderly and the pregnant? Accessibility features don't displace or even inconvenience the majority in any manner. They only make facilities accessible to an additional crowd, who should be getting them as a matter of right in the first place. What's the end game here?


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ManBeardPclast Thursday at 10:29 AM

The endgame is to normalize punishing groups/individuals for any reason on a whim of the ones in charge. Start with minorities and people who can’t defend themselves, then later you can do easier to anyone who gets inconvenient. Despotism 101.

ZeroGravitaslast Thursday at 12:16 PM

They've been talking about rolling back "DEIA" since they got in power. The A is "accessibility" so they're not hiding this.

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rbanffylast Thursday at 8:40 PM

> What's the end game here?

There's no end game in particular.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...

ndsipa_pomulast Thursday at 10:17 AM

Cruelty is the point

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