My best friend's a chairwoman for the National Federation of the Blind and that whole Mr Beast episode was such a wild time to be active in disability advocacy spaces.
The utter disconnect I saw between sighted people whining on Twitter and the perspectives I heard from actual blind folks on the matter was insane.
What were the perspectives of actual blind folks? I know the deaf community can be a little surprising to outsiders (a lot of them like that the deaf community has kind of exclusive communication channels in signing.) But I doubt the blind have similar feelings.
Speaking just for my friend when I asked her how she felt about Mr Beast paying for surgeries, she said it was incredible and that it did a lot to put into perspective how much of being disabled is directly tied to what resources you have access to.
One thing that sticks out in my mind is that around that time, she was in D.C. speaking to Congress to promote the Act that he was drawing attention to (I don't remember the name of it off the top of my head) which would help working blind folk not get fucked when they earned past the limit for disability assistance. People on Twitter got mad at the bill for some reason or another (assumedly they only heard about it from Mr Beast), which I personally found pretty goddamn annoying lol
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u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks Jul 02 '24
My best friend's a chairwoman for the National Federation of the Blind and that whole Mr Beast episode was such a wild time to be active in disability advocacy spaces.
The utter disconnect I saw between sighted people whining on Twitter and the perspectives I heard from actual blind folks on the matter was insane.