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    Ableist language

    If I'm misinterpreting things, it is my fault, although I don't really get how. (Maybe people could specify more on things such as what "the short end of the stick" means? Judging by your response, I don't think what I've said really responded to the actual meaning of that.) But may you please...
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    Ableist language

    Actually, I try very hard for art, but I still am the worst. Probably because my school has this category which "grades" you for effort, so effort doesn't go into the actual grade... But I agree with you, you should put them in a different class to suit them better, if it doesn't "hinder"...
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    Ableist language

    I'm only the worst art student in the year because all the worse students don't take Art. English is mandatory, and there're some worse drawers in my Engilsh class... Anyway I don't think that was your point. I'm not trying to be unhelpful, but I really can't imagine a scenario like that...
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    Ableist language

    If that's how you speak when you're angry you must be an amazing person because I actually felt happy reading that. Anyway, what you say is true, we don't know too much about psychology (especially of animals), we are not designed to function in a society with culture and stuff (I kind of...
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    Ableist language

    Haircuts - more attractive to attract potential mates, also less lice. Art - a way of earning money to live, and psychological satisfaction for the viewers. Skydiving - the curiosity of experimenting this is from the drive of curiosity to know things, because the knowledge of skydiving might...
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    Ableist language

    This is correct. However, it is productive and beneficial to the persons who are measuring intelligence (otherwise they just wouldn't do it), and I know this is just plain unfair but sometimes intelligence actually does matter more than interest effort. Arguments don't need qualifications. And...
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    Ableist language

    Somewhere it has been said that "you as an able-bodied person have no idea how the disabled feel" and there is a strong implication that I don't have the right to argue about this topic. You know, since this isn't a legal argument or anything, I'm not going to check things up, but I'm pretty...
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    Ableist language

    Yes. But well, I have to be proved to be egotistical for it to end, because I like comparing my personal situations with bigger situations! Yet people just grasp on errors in the small situation and ignore the logic part of my argument on the big situation! Yes, I am egotistical. Wait, is that a...
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    Ableist language

    Actually, discussion always dies down after a while, when there's a majority and stuff, so that everyone has a chance to speak after the voting process and whatnot. And plus, it's mafia, what people say may easily turn tides of games. It's true that it's a tiny thing compared to installing...
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    Ableist language

    I didn't have ample time to post after major things happened (or I might have, it's been a while so I've forgot a lot of stuff). That was the point. (Oh and if bad things happen to me because of my time zone, well, I don't like that. :( ) Well, I admit to being a petty person (if I've ever lent...
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    Ableist language

    Humans are self-serving, which is where the supposed discrimination comes from. However, I believe that acting normally should not be classified under discrimination. We're at an impasse, because I do in fact believe that people are intentionally making my life harder by refusing to make...
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    Ableist language

    My point on the dictionary is the definition of "discrimination". Unjust treatment is discrimination, not what happens in the norm. Here's another example: stairs are far more helpful for able-bodied people than the physically disabled but they are not "ableist". Yes, but principally they are...
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    Ableist language

    No, it is not the wrong turn, because everyone here seems to treat everything as discrimination when it should be only applied when it is unjust. Also, you have just called most schools ableist. So I don't really care if you think of me at ableist because you are also thinking of a lot of other...
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    Ableist language

    ableism |ˈābəˌlizəm|(also ablism ) noun discrimination in favor of able-bodied people. discrimination |disˌkriməˈnāSHən| noun 1 the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex: victims of racial discrimination |...
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