We do not know exactly how many people can read Braille, but at one point it was estimated to be 10% of blind people could read Braille. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0145482X211071125?journalCode=jvba#:~:text=Another source for the 10,the United States” (p.
Braille is also expensive and takes up significantly more paper. It is more time consuming to use. Compared to audiobooks, Braille is typically considered inferior and outdated in many circles. I already knew about Braille before I commented, yes. Reading should not be the bar to deny someone rights. It also was a classic racist tactic too. It’s a bad thing to advocate for (denying rights based on reading ability).
Being unable to read shouldn’t be the bar to deny someone rights. But maybe it should be considered when we’re talking about placing them in a position where they have power and influence over millions of people??
Honestly, I have no idea how you turned someone shitting on idiots into this attack on the blind.
Honestly, I have no idea how you turned someone shitting on idiots into this attack on the blind.
Lol you don’t understand how disability factors into this? Or maybe just the simple parameter declaring “if they can’t read, they aren’t fit for office,” and how such statements are ableist including against blind people? Like next you all will suggest if they can’t guess the number of jellybeans in a jar, they can’t run for office. What’s wrong, it’s “just” a basic competency test meant to advocate to deny people rights. It’s just people’s rights, who cares about that? Let’s take them all away, rights are meaningless. If you are a man, you are now the slave of every woman and you dont get to have independent thought. How about we start with those rights instead of advocating for stripping the disabled and those who can’t read of their rights. :)
Btw rights for disability were passed during the same time period as abortion rights and women’s rights - and those are actively being attacked these days as well. I don’t appreciate any speech along the lines of “if you can’t read you can’t run for office.”
Ok dude. If you want to be mad about this, then be mad.
By all means, let’s invite more incompetent morons from the right into political offices. Wouldn’t want anyone to think we hate blind people somehow. Because wanting the leaders of a country to be literate is apparently ableist and as morally reprehensible as transphobia and literal slavery lmao. No slippery slopes here!