What’s so funny about tricking your classmate into eating a tainted piece of candy?
What’s so funny about later, getting signed to an NHL contract?
What’s so funny about an apology through Snapchat?
What’s so funny about calling your friend, or opponent the r-word in “the heat of the moment”?… or simply using it because you don’t want to do the “extra work” of not using a slur.
What’s so funny about normalizing the crossing of “the line” in the name of competition?
“Sports can cross the line sometimes, it happens and then you just, move on.” — A quote from a recent broadcast I watched over the weekend, in regards to an alleged verbal incident involving Anaheim Ducks star, Trevor Zegras.
What’s so funny about staying silent while all these things happen right in front of you?
What’s so funny about being caught on camera, sitting in a wheelchair that doesn’t belong to you, and then flippantly chucking it down a flight of stairs?
What’s funny? What’s funny is how long it takes to get a wheelchair. I’ve been lucky, to get one within six months. Depending on how or if insurances are involved it can take longer.
What’s funny is how my power wheelchair costs about half as much as a brand new car.
What’s funny is how little disregard we have for disabled people, really, for people in general. It’s made us so cruel.
What’s funny is, if it this was about an animal, we wouldn’t be so quick to make excuses about a person being drunk.
Or that it’s all just a joke.
If you replace ‘un-housed person’ to un-housed animal, especially a dog, people move differently. They act faster and with kindness, because dogs didn’t put themselves in that position, humans did.
Cute dogs at risk of euthanasia because a shelter is closing? It’s true that it’s devastating & shouldn’t happen. People will do almost anything to prevent this.
Meanwhile, there are governments that are encouraging access to assisted suicide for disabled people because they personally cannot afford the resources to stay alive.
Whats funny is that we will almost always take care of animals better than we do people.
Society says, instead of spending money on making businesses accesible to those who use mobility devices, lets make a wheelchair that most people will never be able to afford because it can climb stairs!
Whether you understand it or not, it’s all connected. It’s the culmination of our desensitization of violence and cruelty towards others.
What’s funny is that this was his second chance.
What’s funny is he’ll get another one. And another one. And another one.
A good friend helps out by carrying their friend to the bathroom because the establishment isn’t wheelchair accesible.
“Hey let’s tuck your wheelchair here, out of the way but easy for us to put you back into after you use the bathroom”…
Only to come back to it at the bottom of the stairs… in pieces.
What’s so funny about that?
