Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Once again, a thoroughly reasonable and measured approach to inclusion for those with both physical and mental/learning disabilities is twisted by the torygraph to enable literal hatespeech from it’s readers.

  And it’s a little worrying that so many people, even here, haven’t actually read the article or other press about this before getting their pitchforks out.

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Telegraph commenters are truly the most revolting, ignorant people of all time.

  TW: ableism

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s assuming it’s actually people and not bots driving “engagement”.

    Is there really enough people signed up to a Telegraph account to provide 172 comments on a minor story within a day of publishing?

    I don’t know, maybe, but I’m dubious.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The telegraph’s main demographic is lonely, angry, retired gammons

      I can 100% believe there are a shitload of them spending their final years vomiting bile into internet comment sections, completely earnestly

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      God I hope you’re right, but idk, I can imagine that Telegraph readers self-select for bot aspirancy.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used to think the same, but I’m not so sure anymore. My mum works in the council and she constantly tells me first hand stories of people simply abusing the system. Not one offs, but significant numbers.

    Her bitterness about it stems from the fact that many of the families doing it aren’t that integrated into society.

    On the one hand, life is fucking tough right now and people should be using whatever advantage they have to get by. On the otherhand, in a fairer world, people wouldn’t be exploiting the system at all.

    I never really understand where Tories lie on the spectrum of equity/fairness/corruption given their horrific track record, but I can understand the frustration of seeing others doing better than you should be…

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Her bitterness about it stems from the fact that many of the families doing it aren’t that integrated into society.

      Can you clarify what you mean by this?

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The truth is in the middle. I know someone who works in the hospital, a lot of the rough sleepers they come across aren’t really helping themselves nor extremely interested in actually getting help. Some people do just take advantage of the system as in our culture we tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. This is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of. And it works for them.

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• mjr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So Merlin Entertainment basically thinks it knows better than doctors, some disabilities aren’t real and it’s fine to make people with severe anxiety stand in line until they suffer an attack. Lovely(!) Somewhere mistreating people with mental health issues is not a place I’ll go for fun.

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  • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Genuine question? Where would you go?

    The thing with Alton is the sheer amount of people, it’s loud, it’s hyper. I know they have the gardens, but they are still buried in the middle.

    So where can you visit? that gives you fun but without an over exaggerated atmosphere that comes with it.

    I personally like aquariums and gardens.

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Gulliver’s Land in Milton Keynes is a slightly more chill theme park

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    • mjr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Merlin run lots of stuff, including Sealife and Warwick Castle. I’ll avoid the lot.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Torygraph reporting on something adjacent to mental health issues?

  I bet that’s going to not make me hate humanity by reading it…!

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As ever, don’t read the comments in the article. Wow pure toxic

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not seeing any comments on the article, but I can imagine what they’re like.

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re behind a “click here to read the comments” link underneath the main text.

      Yes they are truly inhumane 😔.

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Anyways, this sounds pretty good to me. It genuinely sounds like they’re taking accessibility seriously, and their approach sounds pretty well considered to the needs of everyone.

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