silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDisabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for otherswww.sfchronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDisabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for otherswww.sfchronicle.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoThe article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoNot the large number with crippling mental handicaps.
minus-squarered_rising@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year 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.’
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoMembers of congress doing their jobs?
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
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.’
Members of congress doing their jobs?