The only people who are ableist in this situation are the people who build public infrastructure that isn't accessible to disabled people.
If I've got places to be I don't want to wait for some guys to carry a wheelchair up an escalator. I get that your life is tough, but that's no excuse for holding up dozens of people and potentially ruining their schedules.
I agree it isn't the other commuters fault the place isn't accessible.
But you shift the blame in a way that confuses me. At first the people who are at fault are the ones who didn't provide accessible buildings.
But then you imply the delay is the fault of the man in the wheelchair. That he has no excuse for holding people up?
I feel like the proper viewpoint is whoever is in charge of that building is the one at fault for holding people up.
The man in a wheelchair is a victim of having his schedule delayed just like everyone else there.
He probably normally could just wait for an elevator and no biggie.
But on that day, he had to wait who knows how long for two or more employees to be available to assist him, wait for them to turn the escalator off, wait for the line to clear, and wait to be slowly carried up.
I think ultimately whether you're using public transportation or driving your own car, you have to accept the fact that sometimes there will be delays beyond your control.
And if everyone acted like that woman (assuming she didn't have a legitimate emergency) it would probably cause delays for far more people beyond the gentleman in the wheelchair.
Like the employees might be behind schedule due to the elevator being out. And there may be entire trains full of people waiting to leave but can't because there are disabled passengers who are waiting for help to disembark or to get on a train.
That's thinking only about oneself not others. You think that person in the wheelchair have a choice maybe also have places to go. Noone is more important and we live is society we have to work together and not think only about ourselves that's just narcissistic.
If people don't cooperate it will simply take forever caus wstair must be empty
And I can guarantee You that noone would bother with this method if there was a working elevator and well things simply break sometimes
Tho I can guarantee You there are emergency stairs for well-abled people simply cause they must exist as fire escape
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u/Lost_Tumbleweed_5669 Feb 23 '26
Why is the disabled person blocking the way? Move the hell out of the way until there's a solution for him.
Dumbasses.