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I have to go now ... in view of the river Acheron ... I see something requiring Piscine to Kohl emotional flames ... a mostly mindless operational doings ... as a weak minded process of adepts! Talk to you after the sans of time have past the waste point ...
 
So, kimmio

Is your point that anyone should be hired for any job regardless of their skill set?

Your example of waiting talbe.

Having done that as a teen i have some experience.

Rquires lots of juggling, lots of weaving between tables
Good grasp of the language spoken in the restaurant
Fast walking
Ability to carry heavy trays
Ability to converse with customers in their language

I am guessing that someone who has stunted limbs because their mothers were prescirpbed thalimdomide (and they took it, ) would not be able to do the job.

Are you suggesting they should be hired anyways?


I dont speak french


Should i insist on being hired for a job that requires french?
 
UnDefinitive said:
Thalidomide victims have called for more financial support from Ottawa. All the victims were born to mothers who took the government-approved anti-nausea drug in the 1950s and 60s without knowing of its disastrous side-effects.

The meeting came the same day as the House of Commons unanimously supported a New Democrat motion of support for the victims.

"Thalidomide victims have waited 50 years to get the government's support," said NDP Health critic Libby Davies. "We wish it had come sooner, but we're pleased that they will finally receive the compensation they deserve thanks to our motion."
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Imagine - there are a whole bunch of people, although technically 'victims' of someone else's mistake, are not out to get even and get compensation, but to accept who they are and how they live and get equality instead.
 
Some of us would sooner not survive with people who do not accept both sides of the po'eL of the Golden Rule as it chimeriis ... is that suicidal or just martyr dumb showing as a mood about extraction ... or just moving on from this time and place of hate of lesser powers ... and thus I recess! This could be relief to some ... as in the Piscine of watis ...
 
Lastpointe said:
So, kimmio

Is your point that anyone should be hired for any job regardless of their skill set?

Your example of waiting talbe.

Having done that as a teen i have some experience.

Rquires lots of juggling, lots of weaving between tables
Good grasp of the language spoken in the restaurant
Fast walking
Ability to carry heavy trays
Ability to converse with customers in their language

I am guessing that someone who has stunted limbs because their mothers were prescirpbed thalimdomide (and they took it, ) would not be able to do the job.

Are you suggesting they should be hired anyways?


I dont speak french


Should i insist on being hired for a job that requires french?
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Okay...deli counter making sandwiches. I think you are avoiding my point which is capabilities are overlooked and discriminated against if they don't fit into narrow minded norms.
 
My son is not an engineer. Would you think that not giving him a job as an engineer is discriminating against him

I am not following you

Most jobs have skills required or education required.

You need to meet thoserequirements
 
If someone is a cook, has training with food handling andmeets the requirements then i would expect them to be able to apply for a job. But i would suspect that someone who both walks on their feet and uses their feet as hands would not meet healthstandards for food service. Those arent restaurant standards. Those are food safety standards


Would you be happy if the Subway person walked on their feet and used their feet to make your sandwich? What sort of foot washing would you require before they touched your food. Assuming that they walked from the sink to the food prep counter
 
Kimmio said:
Some don't like to refer to themselves as "victims", @UnDefinitive some call themselves survivors. Some are happy as they are.
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The Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada says the remaining 95 or so thalidomide survivors are not seeking compensation; they simply want financial support to help with their health and mobility problems.

They say they sent a proposal for a “survivor fund” to cover their growing medical and care needs to Health Minister Rona Ambrose

Benegbi's group notes that in Britain, nearly 470 thalidomide survivors now receive annual payments of about $88,000 each per year, from both the British government and the thalidomide drug distributor.

In Germany, where the drug was first marketed, the federal government gives its 2,700 survivors pensions that total up to $110,000 a year.

Benegbi says her group would like to see similar pensions offered to victims here in Canada, to help them with what she says are their "extraordinary" health needs.
 
Now if we could just ship more manufacturing off to Asia or bring more of the cheaper labour to the west could more westerners become rich ... or just an elite ethereal bunch that only think they are Christians without concerns about the Golden Roué's of Ba'al antes ...?

The red and white rose serve as borders to the medium ... and thus the sublime Eros 've Charon ... and Eros wasted way ... emotions are fey ... yet the thought stuck!

Strange words can baffle those divide between emotions and intellect and are stymied about picking the middle'n way ... Y? We just don't know! It is out of the question in a realm where knowledge is considered evil ... and thus we don't!

Don't what? Well think of course ... look what happened to the Bluenose without adequate rudde-ring and stymied route NG! Unguided polity?
 
UnDefinitive said:
The Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada says the remaining 95 or so thalidomide survivors are not seeking compensation; they simply want financial support to help with their health and mobility problems.

They say they sent a proposal for a “survivor fund” to cover their growing medical and care needs to Health Minister Rona Ambrose

Benegbi's group notes that in Britain, nearly 470 thalidomide survivors now receive annual payments of about $88,000 each per year, from both the British government and the thalidomide drug distributor.

In Germany, where the drug was first marketed, the federal government gives its 2,700 survivors pensions that total up to $110,000 a year.

Benegbi says her group would like to see similar pensions offered to victims here in Canada, to help them with what she says are their "extraordinary" health needs.
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There are far more people than 95 in Canada who have thalidomide syndrome. I met a few in one small city that I lived in alone.
 
I understand why they would want money to help with costs. I'm just pointing out not all of them see themselves as survivors or victims of a scandal but just accept themselves as they are. It would be even better if everybody else did.
 
Kimmio said:
There are far more people than 95 in Canada who have thalidomide syndrome. I met a few in one small city that I lived in alone.
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Mercedes Benegbi, the executive director of the Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada ... perhaps you should enlighten Mercedes.
 
I've seen ads about litigation for "Cerebral Palsy Victims" to determine whose "fault" it was that the claimant might want to pin their CP on. I think they are mostly American lawyers. I wouldn't want to pursue something like that. I don't care whose fault it might have been or even that I have CP I just want people with disabilities to have their human rights recognized and to have what they need to be as they are.
 
I think I understand now. Only someone with a disability can have an opinion about the issues and disagreeing with someone who has a disability is part of the oppression and discrimination. There is only one way to define a disability and all persons with disabilities should be hired regardless of their physical abilities. Otherwise, they are being oppressed.

Have I got that right? :confused:
 
It seems to me that words that were recently perfectly acceptable to use and that communicated ideas are quite suddenly offensive to some people. Perhaps we'd be better off not talking at all.

or maybe we just should not take offence where none is intended.
 
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