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Lady Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has criticized 'virtue signaling' (YouTube.com/The Telegraph)

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Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson has said disabled people are not all “heroes,” as she pushed back against the concept of “inspiration porn.” 

The 54-year-old wheelchair racing champion said disabled [or otherwise-abled] people were often treated as if they were “brave and marvelous” simply for getting up in the morning.

‌The Welsh life peer recalled how her wheelchair-user friend who is an accountant was once described as an “inspiration” by a stranger.

She told the Desperately Seeking Wisdom podcast: “I was with a friend a little while ago, who is a wheelchair user as well, and somebody came up to her and they recognized me as an ex-athlete and that was lovely.”

“And they said to my friend, ‘Oh, you’re inspirational as well.‌’ And she’s an accountant. I’m not sure you generally call accountants ‘inspirational.’”

Lady Grey-Thompson, who amassed 11 gold medals over 16 years, said this perception “gets a bit complicated” when it comes to sporting figures (Andrew Yates/AFP/The Telegraph).

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She added that the reality is there are some disabled people who will struggle to get out of bed in the morning and struggle to work. “There’s also a lot of non-disabled people [who] will struggle with that.

“Just because we have an impairment, it doesn’t mean to say we’re heroes.”

The former athlete went on to voice her annoyance with “virtue signaling” and the misconception that the 2012 Paralympics “changed the world” for disabled people.

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“As much as I loved the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, I worked on the bid, and I worked on delivery, and I worked on legacy. It was amazing. That has not changed the world for disabled people.” 

“People say, ‘Oh 2012 changed the world,’ because it makes them feel better. “Well, it’s almost like we don’t have to do anything else because we had the Paralympics in the UK. And I get really annoyed by that.”

Lady Grey-Thompson said the “reality” is that people don’t know “how hard life can be for disabled people.” 

“You know, making trains step-free is going to be expensive and a lot cheaper if they started it 30 years ago. So it’s things like that.‌

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“Train access hasn’t improved, inspiration porn hasn’t improved, education for disabled children is still a struggle, access to sport facilities is still a struggle.” Source

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“Did you ever seriously consider -- this all could now be yours,” Letterman said. Shandling looked around the studio skeptically.

 

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NOTE: "Sexual misconduct" (kamesu micchacara) expresses itself in many forms. Generally, it refers to hurting oneself, someone else, or others in the gratification of desires.

Little known is the fact that simply enticing others -- for example, by appearing naked in an appealing way (think sexting, magazines, or porn) -- is also karma productive of future misery. It's like offering drugs or alcohol to other; great (albeit unseen) harm is being done to oneself.

Just doing it for the money or to survive does not nullify the impersonal consequences. Unpleasant, unwanted results are to be expected. Strangely, this also holds true for those who only encourage the conduct (such as managers, filmmakers, and advisers).

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