silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoDisabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for otherswww.sfchronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down16
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minus-squareAarrodri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down4·2 years agoIsn’t that an oxymoron?
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down2·2 years agoMembers of congress doing their jobs?
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 years agoThe article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down6·2 years agoNot the large number with crippling mental handicaps.
minus-squarered_rising@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoUsing the term ‘handicap’ implies limitations out of their control, which I don’t think is true. For most of them the more accurate term would be ‘willfully ignorant.’
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Members of congress doing their jobs?
The article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.
Not the large number with crippling mental handicaps.
Using the term ‘handicap’ implies limitations out of their control, which I don’t think is true. For most of them the more accurate term would be ‘willfully ignorant.’