CHID 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Disability Rights Movement, Young Life, Disability Studies
7 May 2020
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Title: no pity: people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement. Summary: in this piece shapiro discusses the many ways in which the disability rights movement has shifted and evolved over the past couple decades. They discuss the departure from an association with pity and tragedy and moved towards that of celebration: the main thesis or argument throughout this piece is made very clear within the first few lines of this essay. Disability should and is no longer to be viewed as a personal tragedy or misfortune. Just as the author discusses in the first paragraph of the writing, complementing someone for their apparent lack of disability is a gross error of ignorance. In fact, shapiro likens this to the idea of trying to tell a black man he is the least black individual you have ever met. The insult here is found in the association of a characteristic of identity (such as disability) with the idea of negativity.
