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Petition: ‘Walk Only’ Signs in Pedestrian Areas Are Insensitive to Disabled People
National Review ^ | May 16, 2015

Posted on 05/16/2015 12:22:00 PM PDT by Steelfish

Petition: ‘Walk Only’ Signs in Pedestrian Areas Are Insensitive to Disabled People by KATHERINE TIMPF May 15, 2015

Arizona State University was trying to protect students from getting hit by cars. Students at Arizona State University are petitioning to have the school change the “Walk Only” signs on the school’s pedestrian paths because they “marginalize disabled bodies that cannot walk.” “This petition is in effort to make a more blanket title for these zones that encompasses the diversity of all bodies who occupy the community that is ASU,” states the petition, written by Alec Melger. (Just to clarify:

Although these areas are called “Walk Only Zones,” they are “not intended to limit or redirect use of mobility devices by individuals with disabilities,” according to the school website. In fact, ASU also offers transportation services for disabled students. The issue here is with the signs and not with accessibility – unless of course there are any students who are so triggered by the word “walk” that they have to avoid the area.)

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: disability
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1 posted on 05/16/2015 12:22:00 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

(sometimes it bears repeating).


2 posted on 05/16/2015 12:23:10 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Steelfish

3 posted on 05/16/2015 12:24:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Steelfish

Why stop there!

I guess if they depicted a wheelchair also, that would be rude to those who depend in crutches and cant afford a fancy wheel chair!

lol

stupid freaking liberals


4 posted on 05/16/2015 12:25:30 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Steelfish

sounds like victimization horse crap


5 posted on 05/16/2015 12:26:22 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Steelfish

They could just call it a pedestrian zone. That should satisfy these college students, since it’s extremely doubtful that they understand any Latin.


6 posted on 05/16/2015 12:26:50 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Steelfish

What other code/logo could they use? If it has anything to do with disabled then the abled can complain.


7 posted on 05/16/2015 12:29:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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Then that's it ...

ABILITY ZONE/PATH/AREA

8 posted on 05/16/2015 12:32:44 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Steelfish

I’m sure people who can’t walk have this at the top of their agenda.


9 posted on 05/16/2015 12:33:42 PM PDT by conejo99
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To: knarf
NO WHEELS ALLOWED
10 posted on 05/16/2015 12:34:04 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Steelfish

.....the removal of Reason from the culture for “emotions”.......to create children who are so irrational they will believe that vice is virtue and slavery is freedom.

Just Marxist MO and their gender “theory” where boys are girls, like Common Core, to destroy all Logic, Reason and understanding of Nstural Law (Reason and Logic) to create only people capable of tribal worldview (happy slavery)-—no abstract “thinking” or Common Sense (what made America) possible.


11 posted on 05/16/2015 12:34:11 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: BenLurkin

12 posted on 05/16/2015 12:35:49 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Steelfish


13 posted on 05/16/2015 12:36:45 PM PDT by EEGator
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What a sorry mess we’ve turned this country into.


14 posted on 05/16/2015 12:40:52 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Steelfish

Stand up, Chuck. Walk, Chuck. Run, Chuck, run.

15 posted on 05/16/2015 12:41:02 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: knarf
"NO WHEELS ALLOWED"

Insensitive to the wheelchair bound.

Try again.

16 posted on 05/16/2015 12:42:24 PM PDT by shibumi ("Walk Through the Fire, Fly Through the Smoke")
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To: Steelfish

Folks need to calm down.


17 posted on 05/16/2015 12:42:42 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Whatever they decide, it will be unenforceable for African-Americans.

Maybe they should just post “Selective enforcement zone” signs.

18 posted on 05/16/2015 12:44:46 PM PDT by donna (It is time for Americans to repent.)
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To: Steelfish

I find it offensive when someone ask me to ‘have a seat”.


19 posted on 05/16/2015 12:46:07 PM PDT by Leep ("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
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To: Steelfish
Cross/Don't Cross.

Better yet: Get To Class And Stop Whining About Stupid Crap/Resign From The Student Body -- And Life -- Immediately.

20 posted on 05/16/2015 12:48:56 PM PDT by IronJack
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