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Dating a blind girl
All of her friends are blind
Love that she holds my arm when we’re out
Love that she eventually got used to my apartment and can now navigate around by herself
Love that her guide dog is super friendly and is always on the job to help her.
Love that her family sees me as a great person because her being blind doesn’t bother me
Love that she doesn’t use the internet because it’s too much hassle
Love that she requests I read new books for her in my voice and record them so she has her own boyfriend audiobook library.
“doesn’t use the internet” - thats a lie, blind people can use the internet with all these tts programs, a lot of which are simple to configure and use
It says “doesn’t use the internet”, not “can’t use the internet”. Whilst the internet has become more accessible over time through the use of screen readers etc, accessibility is unfortunately not considered a priority for many apps and websites. It’s trickier to navigate the web as a blind person because websites are primarily designed to be looked at, not heard. It’s not unreasonable that she might just not want to use it, even though she could learn to.
Ew.
Have you ever seen those wheelchair ramps to nowhere and wondered why they exist? The answer is that they’re the result of the Americans with Disabilities Act and lawsuits with consent decrees forcing governments to install them. (There really ought to be some more lawsuits and consent decrees forcing them to build the sidewalks connecting the ramps as well, but never mind that for now.)
Similarly, I look forward to the day when websites are finally held accountable for their failure to abide by the ADA and required to provide proper accessibility.
What’d the parent comment say?
Did it break rules?
You can check the modlog. The reason given is “automod,” which seems quite bizarre to me, especially given that there are no objectionable keywords in the comment, and that it was removed 2 hours after it was made.
“Blind” is ableist language, the preferred term is unsighted
If you use it as a noun to describe such a person, sure, but as an adjective it’s perfectly acceptable and much more natural.
I’m just joking
I hoped as much.
In theory, yes. In practice, most websites continue to be hostile for differently abled people, with the vast majority of websites continuing to have poor accessibility features. There might be a few things worth still going to the internet for, but not that many. 🤷♂️
Why is this comment removed? I thought Lemmy was supposed to be better about this sort of thing
The modlog says it was the sh.itjust.works automod. The comment content didn’t contain any keywords that could have tripped it, so I’m not sure why it would have been set off. Maybe the automod is set to permanently ban recently created accounts that have a significant number of downvotes.
Definitely doesn’t deserve a permanent ban imo, I don’t think they were trying to cause offence.
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
Just restored the comment and unbanned the user.
Because a lot of the mods are power tripping dipshits. Usually they’re the people who hated the mods over at reddit and now that they have power they run places how they want, which is usually with an authoritarian fist.