1990. Is when the US got the fucking ADA. Which was a pittance, and gets trampled all the time, but the point is both of us, neither of us All That Old, were not only born but self-aware children. When the US passed federal legislation acknowledging disabled people HAVE some rights.
I can't speak to the history in Canada and the UK, I honestly haven't had reason to research the legal history in either, but. Yeah, it's very fair to say it's only in the last 20-30 years that we've seen effective anti-ablist work. It's honestly only the last 10 I've seen it getting any kind of serious traction.
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Date: 2017-08-30 12:14 am (UTC)I can't speak to the history in Canada and the UK, I honestly haven't had reason to research the legal history in either, but. Yeah, it's very fair to say it's only in the last 20-30 years that we've seen effective anti-ablist work. It's honestly only the last 10 I've seen it getting any kind of serious traction.