History of the oppression of the disabled

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Q: What did people with disabilities have to deal with before laws were made for them?

Well, let’s see… Infants with disabilities have always been subject to infanticide. Ancient societies, as well as some modern ones, kill or abandon disabled infants at birth. These disabilities can be quite mild-a club foot, a cleft lip.

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Oppression/Remedies

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We have indeed come a long way. But, as in so many other realms, protection is only as good as the enforcement (e.g. the Department of Justice recently levied a record fine against the City of NY for advising developers, for more than a decade, they were exempt from the ADA!)

Further, "protections" allow people to think everything's ok (sure, you can [fill in the blank] because, after all, it's required under the law: without having the service/accommodation actually available)