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Dave Chappelle has built a reputation for ‘punching down’ on trans people – and now he’s targeting disabled people

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Chappelle recalls being “very disappointed” at having to pretend to be speaking to Kaufman, when he could clearly see it was Carrey.

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Chappelle recalls being “very disappointed” at having to pretend to be speaking to Kaufman, when he could clearly see it was Carrey.
“That’s how trans people make me feel.” Whether or not non-transgender people find it funny, it is a joke that stabs at the fundamental insecurity of being trans.
It takes the stance of biological essentialism: that people have innate and intractable traits by virtue of their biology.

Mirroring prejudice

Chappelle is either unaware or just doesn’t care that the term is decades out of date.
It slips into mockery when, bereft of understanding, it does nothing more than mirror prejudice.
He says:
there’s probably a handicap in the back right now ’cause that’s where they make them sit.
there’s probably a handicap in the back right now ’cause that’s where they make them sit.
Instead, it seems he embraces being an “equal opportunity” offender who mocks disability as a defence for his long-running transgender jokes.

The impacts of mockery

His jokes rely on prevailing disgust about transgender bodies and increasingly politicised insistence that transgender people are not real women or men.
These views shared in popular culture are coming to inform anti-trans policy in healthcare, education and the justice system.
As the majority of the general population do not know a trans person, the media has significant influence over perceptions of trans people.
Throughout four Netflix specials, Chapelle has made no effort to understand the object of his jokes or the impact of his mockery on their daily lives.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

The disability royal commission delivers its findings today. We must all listen to end violence, abuse and neglect

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Many people are waiting keenly to hear how the recommendations can make a difference to the lives of people with disability.

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Many people are waiting keenly to hear how the recommendations can make a difference to the lives of people with disability.
While we wait for the report to be made public, we can learn from how government action from the previous child abuse royal commission helped improve people’s lives.

What was involved

Over four and half years, it held hearings, heard stories from witnesses, received submissions and conducted research.
High rates of violence and harm against people with disability have not improved very much over many decades.
Making changes to specialist systems such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – currently under review – will help those involved.

Ableism and ‘othering’

People with disability are often treated in ways that are not acceptable for any member of society.
An example of these types of discrimination is when a waiter asks a carer what a person with disability wants, instead of asking the person themselves.
Or when a person with disability is expected to live with strangers who hit them, because that is the only housing available.
Read more:
Ableism and disablism – how to spot them and how we can all do better
You might think excluding people in these ways does not happen anymore or does not matter.

What we hope the commission will recommend

The disability royal commission listened to people with disability, family members and organisations about what they want to happen.
A consistent view is that it is not enough to focus on stopping violent acts where they are happening now.

The disability royal commission recommendations and government responses should follow the example set by the child abuse commission. The need for a voice, compliance and quality standards remains relevant to people affected by disability policy. And the responsibility for real change stretches beyond government. Change happens when the responsibility to listen and act is taken up by all organisations, communities and members of the public.

What happens next

Immediate action, as we saw in the child abuse commission, will demonstrate priority for the rights of people with disability.
Everyone’s contribution to changing attitudes, building belonging and recognising people’s shared humanity is needed to defeat exclusion and prevent violence.
Poet Andy Jackson recited his work Listen at the disability royal commission’s ceremonial closing sitting two weeks ago.

Ableism and disablism – how to spot them and how we can all do better

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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Australian audiences are tuning in to watch TV shows featuring people with disability: You Can’t Ask That, Love on the Spectrum and Employable Me.

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Australian audiences are tuning in to watch TV shows featuring people with disability: You Can’t Ask That, Love on the Spectrum and Employable Me.
The Disability Pride movement is gaining momentum and people with disability are becoming part of the diversity conversation.

Two types of discrimination

Ableism and disablism both refer to types of disability discrimination.
The nuance between the two words can cause confusion but are important for acknowledging, detecting, and dismantling the types of barriers people with disability encounter.
Ableism is discrimination that favours “able-bodied” people, or people without disability.

Ingrained and everywhere

Indeed, ableism and disablism can be so ingrained in our daily lives that most people are unaware of them.
Both forms of discrimination can be subtle and insidious, making them difficult to detect and address.
Although the process of forcing people into these options no longer occurs in such blatantly disrespectful ways, the result is the same.
Subtle ableism manifests in the use of well-intended “empathetic” comments, like “I can’t imagine losing my eyesight.

Challenging but worth it

A broad spectrum of challenges is at play: confronting and disrupting the status quo, valuing diverse types of knowledge and experience and acknowledging the unconscious biases we all have.
The emphasis on co-design and engagement with people with disability is increasingly prevalent.
However, it is critical to conduct co-design in ways that are not tokenistic and don’t merely validate current practice.

‘Not yet disabled’

Disability has been called the world’s largest minority and is a group any person can join at any time in their life.
As advocate Sinead Burke from Tilting the Lens says in British Vogue’s May issue,
Accessibility and disability inclusion is everyone’s responsibility and opportunity.
Read more:
Inclusion means everyone: 5 disability attitude shifts to end violence, abuse and neglect
Angel Dixon is affiliated with Attitude Foundation.

Ridiculous Excuses Not to Be Inclusive

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

To mark the occasion, CoorDown presents RIDICULOUS EXCUSES NOT TO BE INCLUSIVE, the international awareness campaign created in collaboration with SMALL NY and TikTok.

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To mark the occasion, CoorDown presents RIDICULOUS EXCUSES NOT TO BE INCLUSIVE, the international awareness campaign created in collaboration with SMALL NY and TikTok.
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In a world increasingly focused on inclusion, there are still those who roll out ridiculous excuses not to be inclusive.
Some of these excuses were so incredibly ridiculous that they deserved to be brought to life and properly celebrated.
These are some of the ridiculous excuses given, excuses that deny people who have Down syndrome the chance to fully participate.

Martin Searle Solicitors launch their October 2022 campaign "Disability Matters" to stamp out Disability Discrimination in the Workplace

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

BRIGHTON, U.K., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Martin Searle Solicitors' Employment Law team are launching Disability Matters, their annual campaign to stamp out disability discrimination in the workplace. Their campaign coincides with World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2022.

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Martin Searle Solicitors' Employment Law team are launching Disability Matters, their annual campaign to stamp out disability discrimination in the workplace.
BRIGHTON, U.K., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Martin Searle Solicitors ' Employment Law team are launching Disability Matters, their annual campaign to stamp out disability discrimination in the workplace.
The Martin Searle Solicitors' Employment Law team have found that after the Covid lockdowns there has been a notable increase in people seeking employment law advice about disability discrimination at work.
Fiona Martin , Director and Head of Employment Law, says: "Enquiries about disability discrimination in the workplace have increased since the pandemic.

PTTOW! Returns To Change The World

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

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CARLSBAD, Calif., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PTTOW!, the invite-only event to ignite world change, returns this week, in-person, June 7-8 at the Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad, CA. The two-day event will feature headliners such as Van Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Lydia Cacho, LL Cool J and Katie Couric. In attendance will be PTTOW!'s blue-chip member network, which is comprised of more than 300 Fortune 500 CEOs, CMOs and global change-makers. PTTOW! emerges in-person, for the second time since the Covid pandemic, when the event and community went virtual.

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CARLSBAD, Calif., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --PTTOW!, the invite-only event to ignite world change, returns this week, in-person, June 7-8 at the Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad, CA.
PTTOW!
"With so many challenges going on all across the world, we're reminded of a great universal truth: We're all connected!
We help to turn those ideas into action, sparking real and meaningful change to help create the beautiful world of tomorrow."

Allstate Canada Joins Inclusion Canada in the Fight Against Ableism

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

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MARKHAM, Ontario, Feb. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allstate Insurance Company of Canada (Allstate Canada) is partnering with Inclusion Canada (formerly the Canadian Association for Community Living) to launch a public education campaign focused on ableism and how it impacts the lives of people with disabilities.

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MARKHAM, Ontario, Feb. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allstate Insurance Company of Canada (Allstate Canada) is partnering with Inclusion Canada (formerly the Canadian Association for Community Living) to launch a public education campaign focused on ableism and how it impacts the lives of people with disabilities.
Ableism is the belief, and practice of the belief, that people who have a disability are of less value than others, says Krista Carr, Executive Vice President of Inclusion Canada.
Allstate Canada is proud to support this campaign and encourages its employees, customers and network of communications channels to help amplify Inclusion Canadas goal to educate Canadians on ableism.
Between 2020 2021, Allstate Canada donated $50,000 to Inclusion Canada in support of the initial development of the public education campaign, and another $20,000 to support the organizations federation members across the provinces it serves.

Michele Coleman Mayes and a lineup of prominent attorneys, activists, educators, and business leaders gather for a virtual summit on gender in the legal profession

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Lawline, a leading provider of online continuing legal education, is presenting a two-day event exploring gender in the legal field.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Lawline, a leading provider of online continuing legal education, is presenting a two-day event exploring gender in the legal field.
The two-day virtual event will focus on both how to navigate the legal profession as a woman, LGBTQ+, or gender non-conforming attorney and how to create equitable policies for your employees.
This virtual summit is free for Lawline Unlimited members, and is the second of three Lawline events focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the legal profession.
The first event, focusing on Lagging Diversity in the Legal Field, is now available On Demand.

AHF Files Brief Against CVS at the U.S. Supreme Court

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Friday, October 29, 2021

“For people living with HIV/AIDS, real specialty pharmacies and pharmacists that focus on HIV/AIDS and in-person treatment provide demonstrably superior care than do mail-order pharmacies and retail pharmacies. We believe that CVS’s denial of choice in pharmacy services for HIV/AIDS patients is both wrong and discriminatory,” said Jonathan M. Eisenberg, Deputy General Counsel -- Litigation for AHF.

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CVS appealed the ruling and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
In its brief, AHF asks the Supreme Court to affirm the earlier judgement of the Ninth Circuit.
We filed this amicus brief to support HIV/AIDS patients legal arguments in the case before the Supreme Court and to defend patients rights and choice in their pharmacy services.
The December 2020 9th Circuit Court ruling validated AHFs earlier warning of the CVS threat to the HIV response back in 2018.

Outten & Golden Obtains Consent Decree and Monetary Relief in Wage Theft Case Against Work-Based "Recovery" Program

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Thursday, October 7, 2021

The settlement and consent decree enforcing it follow Outten & Golden's recovery of $805,000 through settlements with the businesses that contracted with the recovery program.

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The settlement and consent decree enforcing it follow Outten & Golden's recovery of $805,000 through settlements with the businesses that contracted with the recovery program.
The businesses paid the program the wages that should have gone to its residents, the lawsuit alleged.
In 2019 and 2020, Plaintiffs recovered $805,000 through settlements with the businesses who contracted with the program.
Outten & Golden LLP focuses on advising and representing individuals in employment, partnership, and related workplace matters both domestically and internationally.