‘Refused service again with my guide dog, I’m done speaking out’

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1. The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

2. See, this is why when people make claims like the UK is a good nation when it comes to inclusivness they are talking bollocks. We are a nation that likes to TALK about how good we are, and we like to THINK we doing a good job, but when you get down to brass taxes and talk to the people who are actually the ones affected by this kinda shit, we may as well be a developing nation.

   I’m someone with invisible disability myself, and as a web developer I work with a number of individuals with various types of accessibility issues (because making the Internet more accessible matters as well), and the horror stories I hear on a daily fucking basis makes me so angry and depressed.

   Our public transport is largely shit if you’ve got accessibility issues, thanks to underfunding our roads (and their associated pavements) are dangerous for people with accessibility issues (trip hazards and holes everywhere), its easier to find a unicorn than a decent condition disabled public toilet, also as mentioned in the article, you’ve got shops and restaurants who would rather run a visually impaired person and their assistance dog down in their car than let them in their business. And that’s not including the broadsheets and governments constant policy of kicking people with disability whenever they can as undeserving of assistance.

   Fuck any business that does this, and fuck any individual who targets people with accessibility issues with hate.

3. How can people not know this is illegal and morally wrong?

4. >I invited people who witnessed the refusal to leave a review. Two voices from another table, however, said that I had “ruined their meal” and “you should leave”.

   It makes me want to blind the person who said that. Obviously I wouldn’t and would just tut tut at them and not leave a tip for the restaurant.

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