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The latest Badenoch-ism

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Part of Kemi Badenoch’s justification for the Tories’ suggested £36 billion welfare cuts is:

millions of people can and do contribute to our economy to their families to their communities even when they face serious challenges. Double amputees run marathons. People who are housebound do wonderful creative work from home. People with autism run some of the biggest tech companies in the world. [Emphasis mine]

. . . and people with half a brain cell run major political parties.

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  • I think as well it's worth pointing out that as a society we seem quite happy to allow neurotypical or non-disabled people to be purely average - we don't go around telling someone working part-time in a shop - "look at that person with brown hair and no particular disability - they're running a FTSE 100 company - why aren't you?" It's the classic compensatory thing - we want disabled people to be somehow profound or extraordinary - an autistic person is a maths genius or can solve complex crimes - a person with profound physical disabilities is wise and sage like and teaches us about resilience. Why can't we just be regular? 

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  • I think as well it's worth pointing out that as a society we seem quite happy to allow neurotypical or non-disabled people to be purely average - we don't go around telling someone working part-time in a shop - "look at that person with brown hair and no particular disability - they're running a FTSE 100 company - why aren't you?" It's the classic compensatory thing - we want disabled people to be somehow profound or extraordinary - an autistic person is a maths genius or can solve complex crimes - a person with profound physical disabilities is wise and sage like and teaches us about resilience. Why can't we just be regular? 

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