OK I said I live in Minnesota USA at time of posting it was about 1am or so (bed time)
(from my perspective)
It is a shame that "most" of you folks had totally derailed this thread before I could even get started.
Note what is written, right after, First off? I wrote "prelude" meaning I was setting grounds for the thread to try and keep it on track and not get so side tracked as many poster have done. Prelude also means it is not addressing the main issue yet. and that the main issue is to be followed. AFTER an establishment of background, that is meant to establish a perspective that is not the same perspective as from a non poor/disabled perspective.
I have also pointed out, I have a lot of content to share because this issue is so normalized, that people don't even realize there is an actual issue, unless your the one directly impacted by the issue.
Thanks for pointing out this site is in UK. I can usually tell the difference in writing style, but I did not really detect the difference here, so I did not realize it was a UK site. Just so you realize this problem, is a problem world wide, not just here where I live.
I had also had asked you not respond to the first post, It wasn't laid out to be responded too because it wasn't even the issue that I was trying to establish. If you read many of the posts correctly, they were attacking me or my writing style or saying this or that not even related to the thread when i have not even established the issue with a foundation of perspective.
Nobody is making you read the thread. Many of the responses were uncalled for. And I might add those responses in themselves were trolling in an attempt to discredit or derail this issue before it was even started.
this post is an example of what I am talking about: how your comments were posted not related to the issue, which will cause the important stuff to be buried or
side tracked.
Seriously just think about this, and please, do not respond. since its just further derail the issue before it can even be established.
I have not even established the issue yet and The thread is being blasted.
I pointed out right off the bat I am establishing back ground information, to establish a point of perspective, that is different than from a non-disabled viewpoint. The reason I need to do this, is because of the normalized devastating nature of the discrimination. What I mean by "normalized" is that from the perspective of the majority, which is non disabled, there is no problem. That no harm is occurring. and no one is being discriminated against. No one is guilty of harming others by their actions both direct and indirect..
Note this
post had nothing to do with establishing the issue. It was written to address the posts that were derailing the thread
before it was even started.
(The question about what TMI and its answers was ok because it was dealing with a question with the poll) And I had asked you nicely, not to respond to the first post and let me establish the issue first, I had pointed out that several steps needed to be written, before I could post the issue itself. Because if I don't, people will look at it from the non disabled perspective and go off their rockers, talking about everything but the issue.
(This has played out on 3 other sites that had banned me, I was following the site rules of the 3 sites I was banned from) I myself am not the issue . I myself am an example of how issue does devastating harm to poor/disabled. Think "Martin Luther King Jr" and the civil rights movement.
What I am trying to do, is follow his example, from a disabled poor perspective
regarding cycling and freedom of movement and discrimination.
Will you clean the dirty laundry if you don't know its dirty? I am trying to show the dirty laundry so we the people can clean it.
So please let me establish the case before you respond further. I will let you know when it is appropriate to respond by saying in caps bold italic and underline , red "The floor is now open for discussion" 1 exemption that I am willing to allow is
questions about "content that I post" so I can clarify to help people to understand.
(And of course, I know I can't stop you from posting I am asking for you to be civil and use the honor code of self governing of restraint. So please STOP attacking me about establishing some guidelines. or establishing the case. I will get to it .I said it is long from the start. Knowing this I am trying to break it in pieces by not writing it all at once.)
Disabled rider.
PS now I am off to write chapter 1 which is going to sound totally of topic and not about the cycling world. I am saying now it has relevance and I will prove it in the later posts of chapter 2 and on. I am trying to break this up so its not a super long single post which would take the highest level of comprehension to even follow. I am sorry in advance that they seem like LONG random rambling. It is a very complicated yet simple issue. It is the perspective that makes it complicated or simple. That is why I have to establish the background before I officially establish the problem itself.