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MNHQ - are they disabilist?

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Sixweekstowait · 09/06/2016 20:36

Having had a thread deleted with no communication with me until I asked ( but then I'm disabled and so invisible) , having read on the second class citizen thread of examples of disabilist language which HQ defend, I am beginning to think they are. I now think they were really really wrong to delete my thread and that they have NO IDEA about the everyday discrimination that people with disabilities face in even trying to travel to work, care even less and I would like to know how many of their staff are disabled?

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Sixweekstowait · 09/06/2016 20:49

MNHQ could have changed the phrase - they could have contacted me, they could have thought what it was like to be trapped in my car by a disabilist cunt, they could explain why they allow disabilist language to stand elsewhere with no deletions - but no they delete a whole thread on an important issue because I think they haven't axcluevabout the realities of life for people with disabilities in our society and care even less

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lougle · 09/06/2016 20:48

Are you saying that you feel that because they deleted your thread and you are disabled, that makes them disablist?

PurpleDaisies · 09/06/2016 20:46

Saying that, I'm surprised the thread was deleted rather than edited but I gather that I posted on it before it turned into a bunfight.

MrsDeVere · 09/06/2016 20:45

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BishopBrennansArse · 09/06/2016 20:45

They deleted a thread that if starter by an able bodied person about a disabled person would have been edited, not deleted.

PurpleDaisies · 09/06/2016 20:44

I don't think it's standard to inform someone their thread has been deleted. You shouldn't take that personally.

Samcro · 09/06/2016 20:43

Tno mn hq are not disablist, but i have found that they do not understand disability and how it affects people,
Things have improved over the years but look at the moment there are 2 horrid threads running , one full of some pretty vile posts, yettheyget to stand
You as adisabled person start one and its deleted, says a lot tbh
I saw youroriginal thread and could not see any thing disablist. About it.

honeysucklejasmine · 09/06/2016 20:42

I don't think they were wrong to delete your thread. I don't think they deleted it because you are disabled, which would obvs be the case if it were a disabilist act.

Pagwatch · 09/06/2016 20:41

I think MNHQ absolutely want to get it right.
Unfortunately there is a tidal wave of really shitty attitudes on here.
Some people really suck.
I think they get torn between 'well they might be an arsehole but its staying just this side of 'debate'

It's a pretty hard thing to navigate.

ApostrophesMatter · 09/06/2016 20:40

The thread turned into a bunfight because of the language you used and the point was lost in the surrounding furore.

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 09/06/2016 20:38

What was your thread about?

I've always found MNHQ to be very inclusive, personally.

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