Why don’t we just spit on wheelchair users?

Amazing that wheelchairs users fought hard for years to get a space on public transport to enable a place at the table with the rest of the world, by that I mean to participate in society, a chance to go to work, to go to school, to go to hospital or the doctors, to go to the Gym, to go out for a coffee with friends and so on.

If you’re a mother with a child occupying these spaces then move when a wheelchair user wants to get on the bus, it’s not difficult, having a child doesn’t make you disabled, stop being so selfish and shift yourself. If it wasn’t for the hard work of disabled people there wouldn’t even be a space there!
Hopefully a way forward can be found by beefing up and clarifying the law in favour of wheelchair users, if not why don’t mothers with babies amuse themselves on their bus journeys by just spitting on wheelchair users, waiting endlessly at bus stops, as they are driven by.

Telegraph article

This extremely stupid and effectively negative ruling has the real potential to turn mothers with babies against wheelchair users and visa-versa. This ruling, even though it only allows the Bus Company to appeal the original judgement against them, sets up in the minds of particularly selfish mothers with babies in buggies etc. a precedent – that they now have a right to use that space and they will. This ruling is going to make life more difficult for many disabled people until someone realise that a serious disability is often for life and that an able bodied mother with baby faces some easily overcome difficulties for a short time only. If the child was ill, then fair enough, the driver would have been told as much by the mother and no reasonably minded wheelchair user seeking to board the bus would object to the space being taken in such circumstances but where there are no extenuating circumstances then the wheelchair user must have a right to use that space.

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