Found\nwithin this short introductory text, Baynton gives readers a glimpse of the\nrest of the book as well as the most fundamental idea of the relations between\nimmigration law and disability; disability was and is utilized as a tool to create\ninequality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This inequality forced upon the \u201cdefected\u201d\npopulous is seen blatantly through the lens of immigration laws of the\nnineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The inequality brought about by\ndisability serves two purposes here, the first being that inequality is used by\nthose who lie within the status quo of important identity throughout most of\nhistory: white males. This is seen in the text with the mentioning of, \u201cconstitutional\ndeficiencies,\u201d otherwise known as using an identity such as a person\u2019s race or\ngender to assign them an inherent characteristic that allows those in power to\nkeep that person out of society. An example from this in the text would be the\nsentence in which Baynton says that opponents of racial equality stated that\nAfrican Americans had inherent defects such as feeblemindedness, impaired\nreason, and more dramatic claims such as having a stronger propensity of being\nblind. These constitutional deficiencies were used to combat the successful\nentry and livelihood of every person who wasn\u2019t a healthy, white male. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second purpose found here in the\nutilization of disability as a tool for inequality would be the unmentioned (in\nthe text) yearning for a modern, utopian society. This drive for innovation inadvertently\ncaused our culture to accept disability only as a hindrance to the successful society.\nThis utopian, new-age attitude is precisely what caused many of the inequalities\nthat we reflect on (such as the \u201cunsightly beggar\u201d ordinances) and still see\nthroughout the world especially among disabled life in third world countries. Rather\nthan combat disability by accepting it and creating a world where anyone can thrive,\nthe United States in its\u2019 immigration policy chose to combat it by literally\nblocking disability and difference from entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This gives us as non-participant observers\na chance to learn about modern day disability representation and governmental\ninterference. From these past ordinances and laws, it can be said that our world\nneeds an individualist attitude in how it tackles disability. The utilization\nof government influence to define and suppress people with disabilities is the\nwrong way to go about fixing the problems within these discussions. In order to\naccurately accept disabled peoples into modern society without hurting their\nchance at a normal life, it must be accepted that every person with a\ndisability is different. Disabilities manifest themselves differently in every\nperson just as every person is inherently different with varying personal tastes.\nThis knowledge can lead towards the determination that every person must be\ntreated as an individual with their own upbringings and desires; every person\nwith a disability should be able to determine what they need in order to thrive\nand feel accepted in this ableist world of ours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In ending, the most important takeaway\nfrom this text is that disability has been and is still used as a means of\noppression from those who feel they are more of a person than those with\ndisability and that the only way to prevent this inequality that is introduced\nfrom this is by tackling disability individually just as we would with anything\nelse regarding any one person\u2019s identity. By taking disability as an individually\noccurring phenomenon we are finally able to move on from characterizing people\nand restricting their lives by way of excluding them from the \u201cnormalcy\u201d that\ndoes not even actually exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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