Following community outrage at the decision to portray disability in this way, the studio has offered the standard empty “sorry to those who were offended”. But the damage is done. Movie-going children in their millions, whose world views are being actively shaped, will now associate limb difference with being scary and dangerous. They’ve learned a powerful, early lesson that disability is gross and scary.
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- Ableism and disability models, Community, Inclusion and access
- Author:
- Jamila Rizvi
- Source:
- SMH
- Date published:
- Sun 10th Jan, 2021