If the accommodations exist, disabled folks generally take advantage of them, even if the accommodation isn’t perfect.
But comments like those I’ve highlighted imply that disabled people are either a myth, or some special class that still needs to be hidden away out of shame. They also trivialize and mock the risk a disabled person might be forced into taking.
Ableism is heavily embedded in our society and culture. This pandemic has really helped highlight just how much.
What led to this? 45. He was always complaining about political correctness. Now being a total s-head is normal.
one could describe it as a mass of wibbly-wobbly, socially-wocially stuff…
I feel bad for the store staff who have to keep dealing with these idiots who insist on staging these stunts so they can score points on Gab or Parler or whatever.
We’re nearly a year into this thing, so there is nobody who doesn’t know they will be required to wear a mask in a grocery store anywhere in the country at this point. Therefore they walk into these stores with their camera rolling specifically to pick a fight with innoncent people who have no power to change what the grandstander is mad about. Sigh.
We’re not all lunatics in Texas. Our apologies for this “gentleman.”
That bit where he lapsed into French…maybe he’s from Paris?
Paris, Texas?
He could be from Louisiana?
That’s for sure! Prior to this, my most frustrating experiences re- ableism were conversations with local Green Party organizers who are (I was baffled to learn) anti-vax here. That the ableism being exposed by the pandemic is so often intertwined with a sickening level of entitlement leaves a gross taste in my mouth.
I guess it’s good to know who these people are. Same with all the racists coming out of the woodwork. But I wish there weren’t so many of them.
(I don’t really condone violence. I’m venting.)
Only I gets to decide how my child feels. Obviously she doesn’t get to express her own feeling around me because I’m such a big fucking tyrant.
Those poor children. 
Leper outcast unclean got my attention as I’m re-reading the Thomas Covenant series. Much more pleasant if you skip all the real world sections, skip a bit every time the word “clenched” comes up (which is often), skip a few words when the word “argent” surfaces. Skip some every time he uses a vocab word. Moves along at good clip so far!
When I read the Last Chronicles I kept a list of words I had to look up: it was very long indeed.
As a former manager, you pick your battles. Sometimes people like this come back and tearfully apologize. Others become emboldened. For the latter, you usually inform district management to smoothly ban them on your end. Then you tell the other stores in the chain, because customers like this need that special cucumber, and they will undoubtedly go to the store in the next town over to start their nonsense there. If they keep getting shut down as soon as they walk in, they eventually learn. You’ll see them back in a year quietly shopping and hoping you forgot.
see, you say “if they keep getting shut down”… but the guy shopped his entire list. there was no shutting down of anything. He yelled about his freedom stating made-up laws as instructed by various websites and networks. No lesson was learned except that being an asshole wins.
i have managed a few places in my day, and perhaps it’s a grocery store thing, but i’ve never had an asshat come back and apologize for yelling his way into winning.
I tend to assume that most people with lung function bad enough to prevent them from wearing masks would be trailing along one of those supplemental oxygen tanks.
JFC. Privilege in action.
Well, the first one’s usually free. If they’re habitually a problem then I’d take action. Even if you can’t ban them, you can micro customer service them next time. People like this tend to blow up and leave if an associate is around them their full shopping trip.
I’ve never managed a grocery store either. People like this were common in record stores and book stores.
I think the key point is not to try to guess what kind of disabilities are legitimate, because some do exist, but rather that the appropriate, reasonable accommodation for someone who can’t or won’t wear a mask is not to let them come inside the store where their unfiltered breathing might transmit covid to others, but to give them curbside service.
That is, masks are required in the store. No exceptions. Reasonable accommodations provided, outside.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover-guidance.html
If you have asthma, you can wear a mask.
It’s right there on the CDC website.
