They've never been concerned about the wrong people getting help until now, yet their stance is still the same. They're not concerned about the wrong people getting help, they're just saying that to get support for their greedy ideals. It has always been about them getting the most amount of money at the expense of other people. These people need to be in jail, but preferably worse.
As somebody who on the edge of homelessness even when I had section 8 housing. I can't work. I've been born disabled with degrading illnesses. I magical can't get better. Only hold the bar from falling. I will get only worse. All my disabled pays solely for rent and I just got a letter saying it'll grow 50$ monthly with no cap. My SO is barely keep food in the house my mil has to help. Everything just keeps breaking down. I can't find an way to break even. I'm so scared of bring homeless in texas in this heat. It will kill me.
@@littlestshadowobv I don’t want you to be homeless. But just to ease your nerves a little: There are public places with AC where you can chill when it’s too hot. I would recommend getting a library card because they’re a great place to stay when it’s way too hot and if you have a library card then you can use the computers there I’m sure there are more places but I can’t think of them rn😅 good luck tho!! This heat is seriously scary❤❤
@@YoUtUbEhAnDlEsArEgReAt then why does the lie work so well? We’ve been taught to inflict punishment, to only help the “deserving” as though any one of us knows how to even tell who “deserves” help.
Hi! My name is Elizabeth Schoen and I am the Minnesota College student who was denied access to the Jet Blue flight. Thank you so much to the Phillip DeFranco show for bringing more attention to this. I got lucky that I had a place to stay and the financial stability to pay for another flight. The fight for people with disabilities and service dog users to be able to just live their life is constant and draining. Thank you to all advocates who are helping us.
Yep. My boyfriend is completely blind with a guide dog, we booked a flight for his best friends wedding 6 months in advance. We showed up to check in and they said they changed their policy during those 6 months and his guide dog to get approved by a third-party which will take 48 hours. We told them we never received any communication, and they were super rude and tried saying we didn’t get a notification because we put his guide dog as a pet (I went back to our receipts and we never had a pet in our reservation and were never charged the $25 pet carrying fee. I called customer service later and they confirmed the pet was added the night we were trying to check in. I still believe the employees added it in without telling us so we would take the blame). My boyfriend had to book a last minute flight with American. I don’t know how it’s legal when the DOT says airlines are not allowed to require any additional documentation outside of the two official DOT forms, I don’t know how requiring this application to their chosen third-party is allowed. DOT never completed the investigation after our complaint.
Just an anecdote relating to the disability story: My mom had Interstitial Lung Disease and could only walk for about 2-5 minutes at a slow pace before her oxygen levels dropped into the 80s and lower, so we pushed her in a wheelchair around Disney World. We got so many dirty looks and snide comments when she would stand up from the chair to walk a few feet to get on a ride, because some people think the only reason someone could need a wheelchair is because their legs don’t work. Thankfully, Disney itself was incredibly accommodating even though they never asked for any documentation. She died 3 months after that trip, so I’m glad we had a good experience over all.
Same thing happened when my sister just went to Disneyland. She had to get one of the motorized scooters because she had brain surgery which affects her balance, and has EDS which has caused her to need both ankle and knee surgery because her ligaments snap like twigs. People saw a 35 year old seemingly "able bodied" woman and glared at her but they could never fathom the amount of pain she endures everyday.
As someone who is also an ambulatory wheelchair user. This is so fucking annoying. So many people don't know that quite a high percentage of people using wheelchairs can walk --- it's that they shouldn't in those moments because of their disability
As someone with intermittent mobility issues, I get the dirtiest looks when I have my cane with me but stop using it or don't need it. I've literally had my cane kicked out from under me at a concert. People suck
Also an ambulatory wheelchair user here 🤚 I’ve made myself sick for fear of rejection and judgment instead of asking for wheelchair services when I needed them. No more, but the anxiety doesn’t go away.
I have a disability and I can’t walk very far or stand up for too long, so it’s much easier and faster for me to get around in a wheelchair. I also get snide comments and mean looks.
As a physically disabled person, there are endless examples of extra expenses and extra work that we have too do to get the accommodations we are supposed to be guaranteed by law since it's necessary for us to participate in society with everyone else. The ableism in our culture is still so unbelievably bad, even in otherwise decent people. And it's not just bigots who are horribly ableist, often without even understanding what they've just done. Thanks for brining this issue up! I'd love to see you do an interview with an advocate.
I wrote a paper not even a year ago for a GSWS class on the sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada. We have a pretty dark history of eugenics within our healthcare system that has been a massive and ongoing problem that most Canadians don't even know about.
A lot of false and misleading information circulates within our education system. Especially with regards to indigenous relations. The standards of proof aren't there, and critical examination is overshadowed by 'lived experiences'. We put the stories handed down through generations above the physical evidence from exhumed 'grave' sites. Social Work especially tends to focus on grievances rather than facts. People who engage in these studies, and those that write textbooks for them, are chomping at the bit for juicy morsels of oppression and this bias leads to a lot of false claims about our history. I just went through this with a girl who is studying this same subject. We fact checked many of the claims and they were demonstrably false.
@@hautehussey The Sexual Sterilization Acts haven't been law for 50 years. The only way this could be continuing now is by individual doctors who are willing to sacrifice their entire careers to do it. Either way Kotakas conduct was found to be unprofessional but not racist. The original acts in BC and Alberta were in regards to Eastern European immigrants of "feeble-mind". A good portion of those sterlized were British or other European. An estimated 7.1% of all cases between 1933-1936 were indigenous. The act was born out of a perceived crisis of European countries dumping "feeble-minded" people on Canada due to our generous immigration policies. Also the acts strictly prohibited sterlization without patient consent. It is totally disingenuous to call it the "forced sterlization of indigenous women" or to suggest that there is anything like a concerted effort to do so now.
Yeah it's crazy! I also think, though, that there is a portion of homeless people who actually enjoy the freedom of being homeless where they don't have to have the government involved in their lives at all and any money they get doesn't have to go to rent or anything but to whatever they choose. There's also a hierarchy, like there is in any social population, where a homeless person wouldn't want to lose their high social standing in a homeless community to be just above the poverty line and low social standing in the housed community. Plus a lot of unhoused are struggling with severe mental health issues and getting treatment is expensive and requires routine/remembering, and getting/keeping a job is something they struggle to do independently. I worked in an outpatient clinic when I was in college (I was going into the mental health field and got to try out different areas and see which I'd want to pursue in graduate school) and while some people successfully transitioned from outpatient to a halfway house for mental health ( basically they lived independently but had someone monitoring their meds) to getting eventually their own housing, there were others that would get so close to being ready for halfway housing and then they'd fake taking their meds and have a psychotic break and have to be readmitted to inpatient. A lot of the ones who "relapsed" into inpatient were those who were terrified of being on their own where they were in charge of their lives and supporting themselves with a job and such. We also had to go to court with them (drug court and/or mental health court) which decided where they were in their journey after reviewing with the outpatient clinic how their treatment was going. There was also a psychiatrist that visited the clinic once a week to check in on meds. A small portion of this outpatient clinic was unable to ever live independently and no matter what counseling/meds/etc they weren't getting or keeping a job much less feeding or cleaning themselves. These are those who become a portion of the homeless community in other places because they don't have room for people who will never be ready to transition to independent or even halfway house living, when there are so many with potential that need the slots instead. Needless to say, I did not go into outpatient clinic counseling because while 3% of it was awesome and I learned a lot and made progress with some of my clients and group therapy sessions, 97% of it was depressing, repetitive, and working with adults who may have baggage, families/friends who never see them, and who might never be able to take care of themselves on top of difficult to manage mental health issues. I went into working with teens in a school setting instead and that's my wheelhouse for sure. The people who work in intensive psych jobs and outpatient clinics burn out really easily (some of my coworkers were) but I also thought it was cool how they had "advisors" which were people who successfully completed the outpatient and other phases and got a job at the center working with the clients and encouraging those they could help make it through.
@@brandonking8509 a lot of homeless already do that. It's called squatting and it's really popular in urban areas especially where entire sections of a city are just abandoned. I remember volunteering at a soup kitchen in the town where my college was (not a huge town) and the city residents complained about the "lines of homeless" waiting to grab a table or groceries in the soup kitchen on the sidewalk being "visible" to residents driving down a main road and eventually the soup kitchen had to move like 4 blocks to the basement of a church instead of a store front which was more accessible to the people who needed it and it was right down the street from where AA and NA meetings occurred and where the outpatient clinic I was at was. I was incredibly angry about it because I'd sit with the people who'd come in and sit at the tables and hear their stories and chat with them over a warm meal we made (we'd make different recipes each night with fresh ingredients and they'd get a bag of groceries for the week, but could stop in any of the three nights we were open for dinner for a hot meal). There is a big city about 20-30 minutes from where I live and there's a huge homeless community that lives in tents along a river behind a Walmart plaza.
I think the US and Canada need to start forcing rent regulations. Its aleady rediculous as a price, and they are STILL raising it, with noone to check them. Its absurd.
Thing is, with rent raising and people being homeless, how are the landlords/people who own them getting money? Nobodies living in them so there should be vacant lots
@@kiwiseatpumpkinpie1709a lot of it is big companies or super rich people buying up Buildings and land in order to jack up prices. In turn it causes others to follow suit because more money can be made. They majorly rich also don’t need the place profitable immediately they can just sit on it while it appreciates
It will discourage private supply of rental properties, they tried similar policies in Australia. They need to increase the supply of affordable houses to buy and social housing but that’s considered “communism” so policies which will actually make a difference are too left wing for the American political system which is controlled by lobbyists as we all know.
@CptMasta take an economics course and you’ll see why you don’t want price ceilings when it comes to rentals. What the government needs to do is create much more subsidized housing and better housing efforts. Once you fix the supply issues, prices will go down.
The sterilisation story is so egregious. I had surgery on my uterus in New Zealand (another Commonwealth country) and the specialist took great care explaining that if they found anything unexpected they wouldn’t be able to address it then if there was any risk to ongoing fertility, as they didn’t have my informed consent. You weren’t able to ‘consent for hypotheticals’ in advance, they would literally need to schedule a second surgery at a later date to ensure you had a proper informed discussion and had support for decision making!
Why does nobody take the 5 seconds to look past the sensationalist headlines at the actual documentation or at the very least the article?? When something seems too horrifying to be true, it usually is. Canada still going off after that school "grave" site was found to be a hoax or in a nicer way, jumped to conclusions? Don't worry, I did the reading for you, here are the whole facts: The doctor that operated on the woman: A. Was informed that if there were complications, they will remove both. B. He asked her if she planned to have MORE children, SHE SAID NO. C. She had been having frequent ovarian cysts due to PCOS, which if she was having severe pain and repeated cysts it's highly likely she had the other e myriad of complications that go along with PCOS. D. He is a certified teacher of Informed Consent to other doctors. E. Not only was he a head OBGYN, he was the director of the department. Ironically, him trying to find a way to remove the 2nd ovary and tube was him trying to HELP HER and save her a 2nd trip to the surgeons table, anesthesia, complication risks that come with every time you go under, time to recover, on and on. The comment that everyone is pearl clutching at is him thinking out loud if he will still be able to justify it for the national health insurance, since she was only approved for the 1 removal, but given she was a-okay with both being removed and said she had 0 desire for more children, if he could find a reason to do it in 1 surgery, it benefits her from having to get back on the waiting list to get the other one removed later. But, nobody cares about what really happened. He was of course immediately put on leave as soon as the malpractice inquiry arose. And now he will be dragged thru the mud, and he will never have a surgical role again. In fact, the only people taking advantage of her indigenous personhood are the lawyers & the politicians. 🤝💰🪙Nice job carrying water at the expense of someone's whole life, people! The NY bicycle girl wasnt even a month ago, but here we go again! Ugh, it never ends. Stop and think!! 😡💢
As a Native American women living in North Dakota, I must say. YOU’RE JUST NOW FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS?? I learned about these subjects since I was in elementary school. We’ve been getting sterilized since at least the 60’s without our consent. Even our own “Indian health hospitals” have been doing it without our knowledge. I’m so shocked that this is just now getting covered.
I knew it happened historically and far too recently but never imagined it had happened within the last 20-30 years 😢 I’m sorry for my ignorance as part of my privilege for this.
@@jimysk8er Thanks for correcting me, it was a slip of the finger, I didn't even notice. You really can't see the relevance?you don't think the personal experience and first hand account of the person I asked is relevant at all? Are you saying that her experience is irrelevant? How about you answer your own dumb question. Tell me, why is my initial question relevant? It certainly was relevant enough for you to answer, wasn't it?
I was getting berated by men at work a couple years ago for smiling. I had just recently gone homeless from the the abuse at home escalating. I was working at a grocery store where its literally part of the job discription. But how dare I smile when life isn't just butterflies and rainbows.
Clearly none of the people who think that have ever done anything as common as worked a high-volume customer service job while suffering body pain. You learn to smile through A LOT.
As a Canadian I find that appalling, Imagine having a hernia and waking up missing your testicles. I hope these Doctors get serious legal action, stripped of the MD's and prison time.
Why does nobody take the 5 seconds to look past the sensationalist presentation at the actual articles? When something seems too horrifying to be true, it usually is. Canada still going off after that "mass grave" was debunked? The doctor that sterilized the woman was informed: A. If there were complications, they may remove both. B. He asked her if she planned to have MORE children, SHE SAID NO. Fun fact: She has been having frequent cysts due to PCOS and already planned not to have anymore children. Ironically, him trying to find a way to remove the 2nd ovary and tube was him trying to save her a second trip to the surgeons table, and still be able to justify it for the national health insurance. He was of course immediately put on leave as soon as the malpractice inquiry arose. And now he will be dragged thru the mud, and he will never have a surgical role again. In fact, the only people taking advantage of her indigenous personhood is the lawyers & the politicians. Nice job carrying water over someone's whole life people! The NY bicycle girl wasnt even a month ago, ugh it never ends. Stop and think!! 🤬😡
This is one of the reasons why we indigenous people in colonised countries, distrust the health system so much. My heart goes out to my sisters in Canada. Such a tragic and cruel story.
As an Indigenous Women myself I could have a complete 12 hour podcast with just this, I can go on for hours about the shit you don't know about. Let me fill you in on just one of them. In the early 1900s when the Canadian Food Guide was made, they actually got the results for children by experimenting and starving/not giving the children the nutrients they need in residential schools. I know this fact very well because in my area I got a residential school remnants and my grandpa went there and experienced such things. Except for him, they experimented on Medicine trials which he later died of cancer at 55 with the experiments they did to him.
This has been going on for so long, I'm glad it's getting international attention. Seems the only time the government steps in to protect indigenous people is when they're shamed into it by the rest of the world
@kellobyte7984 the stories my grandparents told me about the boarding schools they were forced to go are vile. I don't understand how any of us are still follow catholicism after hearing that shit.
The fact that these doctors arent getting their medical license revoked indefinitely is insane. Imagine getting a major life changing surgery without giving consent, let alone not even being told
Fucking agree. Child free women can’t get a sterilization but doctors can just decide someone who’s First Nations should without that person’s consent? Those “doctors” should never be allowed anyone medically ever again and should be sued for all their worth
@localmenace3043 unfortunately the oath is just a moral code and not legally binding. the actual action should have been illegal enough to completely revoke licensing and eligibility along with prison time though. insane how little consequences they face.
Doctors do not care about women, and they care less about BIPoC which means the people who gives doctors their power don't care about them either. The only way to ensure quality care is to advocate for yourself and if their is a language barrier is impossible which means it will be even harder to get these people the punishment they deserve because bureaucracy is hard enough to navigate in one's native tongue.
Meanwhile a certain doctor is being threatened to have their license revoked for having an opinion on the internet in canada. I am not sure what is happening in Canada recently but its not great.
Unfortunately trademarking will still protect almost anything they would need to protect. Just look at disney’s legal strategy with their older products like winny the pooh
Nope. In the case that you are referring to it was deemed that only AI content with zero human input couldn't be copyrighted. Still don't know about content that has had human input, but its most likely going to be deemed copyrightable.
@@vKILLZ0NEv idk I feel like we’re at least gonna see a case about it before things become more clear. The content itself was made by ai, you don’t give a writers credit to autocorrect.
What's also hurting is the fact that grocery stores or at least the corporations behind them have drastically increase the price of product equivalent to that of the increase to food stamps doing it purely for the extra profits
Not to mention people get food stamps cut if they get more income to make up for inflation, because the income limits are static and not tied to inflation.
I've been disabled and on food assistance for about 7 years now. I have never before struggled to put food on the table. I was always doing perfectly fine and I wasn't even getting the highest allotment. Now, at the highest SNAP allotment, I can barely make ends meet. I'm getting about 25% more money now and prices on most food have risen by over 50%. Not to mention there aren't nearly as many coupons now as there used to be and basically never any sales on staple foods. Purely for greed. These corporations are destroying the economy for greed and they're just allowed to.
Dude this. My husband went to Walmart last week, we bought what would be less than half of our grocery list cause we were short on supply. About $90, usually our budget is $150. What the actual f!ck
People are expected to pay their rent, utilities, these high ass groceries, gas money and still pay other essentials. And God forbid you're a parent having to make sure you are caring for those little humans too or your not a fit parent or abusing them when you're doing what you can just to get by. I'm convinced our government actually just hates us.
Why has a political debate been reduced to a public roast competition? They're not debating anymore. They're just calling each other names and talking over each other. 😔
Its embarrassing 😳 I was in debate club as a teen because I was concise and to the point with my answers and that was as a fifteen-year-old honestly these people should go back to 9th grade😂
I really hate when people talk about homelessness in LA and don't mention that it has been the policy of states all around the country to put homeless people on buses and send them to LA for decades
@@lilpenguin092Because most of them come from red states and then those governors and senators can say the blue states are sending their homeless to red states and that's proof that democrats don't care and that they can't take care of their own so they shouldn't be in charge
The idea that 1 in 3 homeless are in LA?!Absolutely insane and devastating Btw South Park covers the homeless being bused around back in 2007 (S11E5 Night of the living homeless)
@@lilpenguin092they do, I forgot what the program is called but they even fly ‘em to other states and the states would send them back due to no resources. It’s like every state is playing tag and dropping bags on each others porch. If they are lucky, when they run the clock long enough the problem expires. It’s sad and LA isn’t innocent, but he is right about the hot potato games being played.
I wanted to be sterilized for a while now and I only finally succeeded bc I had another goddamn teratoma tumor pop up this year. My sister has two kids and also wants to be sterilized and has changed gynos again hoping this one will actually listen to her about it. It’s infuriating seeing what we’ve had to go through to do this and some assholes will sterilize anyone regardless of consent.
Sadly, Doctors are letting personal beliefs get in the way. "Oh you're young (white) and healthy, you might change your mind!" vs. "there's already five of yours running around the reserve, lets prevent you from having more." As a Canadian, the fact that the Dr. mentioned only lost his license for 7months instead of permanently is gross.
Both issues are heat breaking violations of bodily autonomy, but it’s not by random chance that different women face one or the other. America’s legacy of eugenics is far reaching
Sterilizing indigenous women in Québec and Canada in general is sadly so frequent! A friend of mine who is a nurse told me this horrifying story. She was taking care of a patient before their hysterectomy. After waking up, the first thing the patient asked my friend is « When can I start trying to have a child again? ». Let me tell you, chills went down her spine as she realized the patient wasn’t aware that the surgery would prevent her from conceiving a child again. She had to explain everything and it broke her heart to see how little info the woman was given and how it was turning her world upside down.
Unless it's an emergency life or death situation where it physically cannot be done, not making sure they know the full ramifications of having a certain body part removed is one of the cruelest things I can think of. I can't imagine how heart wrenching it must of been to try to explain it and comfort her, let alone actually go through that.
@@aliceinwonderland8314 It's bc it's -not- rarely true. Canada saw how stirred up and reliable women voters are after the USA took abortion rights away, and they are trying to evoke a similar feeling. For example, the story from today's is not what it seems: The doctor that sterilized the woman was: A Informed her if there were complications, they may remove both. B. He asked her if she planned to have MORE children, SHE SAID NO. C. That doctor is an educator of consent to other medical staff. D. She has been having frequent cysts due to PCOS, which causes a myriad of other problems along with pain, and already planned not to have anymore children. Ironically, him trying to find a way to remove the 2nd ovary and tube was him trying to ACCOMMODATE her & save her a second trip (plus waiting period, etc) to the surgeons table, and still be able to justify it for the national health insurance hoops he has to jump thru for it to be approved. He was. of course, immediately put on leave as soon as the malpractice inquiry arose, that was in 2019, the case closed last month and he has not been back to work yet. And now he will be dragged thru the mud, and he will likely never have a surgical role again. In fact, the only people taking advantage of her indigenous personhood is the LAWYERS & the POLITICIANS.
@@aliceinwonderland8314 yeah it was very bad! Let’s say the nurse says « hi, I’m here to prep you for your hysterectomy ». Common sense would suggest that the patient has received pamphlets and had a pre-op information appointment. Hell… I had a 1 hour appointment for a nose surgery (septoplasty). Anyway, by having the patient agreeing to get the hysterectomy done, the nurse assumes she’s been informed at the pre-op appointment and that everything is fine. Just to find out that the surgery team didn’t follow protocols and she’s the one tasked to give her the terrible news 😔 Lack of care and communication from the doctor’s team towards the patient but also lack of communication and respect towards the nursing staff. It’s atrocious
As someone who is both Canadian First Nations and AFAB, this is something I’ve known about for a long time. The fact that so many people are shocked by this is really sad (edited for spelling and clarification)
Yes it’s been well documented along with the same egregious behavior by the US government as they also sanctioned the sterilizations of native women until the late 90’s with reports of drs still doing it up till the early 2k’s. People don’t know the facts because the public and media narrative of racial injustices are dominated by a specific demographic. The topic of race is usually black and white. We can’t even discuss this specific issue without comparison to the treatment of black women. Natives are always in shadow or a side note they tack on to the discussion. We are the “other”. When we talk about slavery it’s always discussed about the atrocities of African American / black communities however there was 11 million enslaved black persons AND 5 million enslaved indigenous people however 100 million indigenous people where murdered during a genocide and entire tribes where eradicated. By any single Available metric of racial injustice our indigenous people suffer the worse including police violence, education, income, abuse against women, missing women, equal employment, unemployment, healthcare, equal wage, housing, entertainment jobs, etc. Any metric.
I’m glad Phil is covering this though. I work with indigenous people in health care, and I find that often I’m having to throw in a cultural perspective for the medical team (I’m allied health) to consider. Consent isn’t just a nod, or a yes.. it’s actually finding out if your client actually understands the procedure and the side effects.
Similar things have happened to American native women, particularly between 1960 and 1970 but the practice started in 30s. This is well documented and not out of character for the United States during this period known for using human subjects in studying syphilis (Tuskegee Experience) and from 1950-1972 disabled children in Staten Island were purposefully infected with Hepatitis
As a disabled person ive basically just come to expect no hope at all from government or private entities. Im lucky enough that i can generally manage independently but i worry for my disabled brothers and sisters who cant
Same though. It's a heartbreaking reality. I hope people start suing, because it's not our fault that we need accommodations to live relatively normal lives
same. and as time moves forward some disabilities, challenges, struggles, and issues just become progressively worse with time... it is so difficult to have to express to (even those that care about you) how much difficulty your personal health condition that may be "invisible to the eye" causes you day-to-day. Especially, when you "function" when you are able to "manage" using words that maybe... they can kind of understand so they can get where you are coming from... sometimes it feels like you speak a different language than they do ( metaphorically ) they want to understand - but it would be like explaining the color blue to a person that has never seen blue ever and cannot currently see it, and may never see the it...The color is very real to you but for them it's sorta abstract... you develop very good "word picture" skills to illistrate what you are going thru... its exhausting... because usually these conversations occurr in a moment of crisis... and you are already struggling now you have to dissect what you are going thru ans try to explain something out of reach to them... to reason with them.. so you can help them understand. it's so much. and that is with someone that loves you and is trying to understand your situation better. now. someone who doesnt know you. doesnt have the patience to get to know you... and is stressed because 20 ppl are behind you and maybe your challenges are really inconviencing the rest. it makes you feel a bit detached from everyone around you... and you gotta fight to stay grounded to the present all while internally trying to calm and soothe yourself. its just so exhausting. when you have a good day... you soak it up but not too much cuz even that can zap you of your energy.. so you soak it up to a threshold that you cannot pass or your illness will get overwhelmed and trigger something... i appreciate the people in my life that just ACCEPT my issues and roll with them with me... and dont pressure me to explain my.. well 😂 my existance. why i am the way i am... that just allow me to be me... and help me push myself when i need to push myself and allow me to take a pause when i can sense i am about to over-do-it. they are my safety net.
Department of Education counts homeless students every single school day. There are 1.3 million children homeless last year. Who is not counted? Their parents and children that have no hit kindergarten. Why different than HUD? Different definitions. HUD cooks the books to manipulate numbers by changing the definition. Our government cannot even agree what homelessness is, so how the heck are we doing to end it. This is a great segment on homelessness. THANK YOU
I just left homelessness for the second time in the AZ summer and it was har There is more than one kind of homeless. Homeless in different climates, with or without a job, car, pet, children, friends, family, disability, access to shelter, type of shelter, food, shoes, clothes, protection, medical help (mental and physical). Everyone is different and none of us have the same disadvantage, or privileges. But for all of us it is hell.
There's also the common act of suing using false claims in hopes of a large settlement. Don't act like you know what happened just let the case play out.
@@tullalife9557I agree with both smiling for photos even when having a terrible time and that false claims are a real thing. I’m annoyed that people are cancelled these days by the media and the masses when they haven’t even had their day in court.
I don't know anything about that story but I do know that it's ridiculous (dare I say suspicious) to point at someone smiling in a photo as evidence for someone having a good time.
These sterilizations are happening when there are other health/risk factors present. The term coerced is being brought up a lot, but a lot of that can simply be the Dr explaining the health risks of future pregnancies for each of these women and talking them into sterilization, like they did with my mother(who is not indigenous). Some women do in fact feel like they were duped when they were talked into the procedure. It'll make sense to them at the time, but later they start to question it as their emotions get the better of them, then they look back on it and think they were coerced or fooled, when truthfully the doctor simply gave good advice regarding a decision on health, and talked them into a procedure that was probably for the best. I have yet to see a case of sterilization where there wasn't a related health issue that would make the sterilization make sense, except for one, but her case was supposedly an accident, which again is quite possible, accidents do happen all the time. Heck, just recently an OBGYN decapitated a woman's baby. Anyway, a lot of this seems like miscommunication rather than nefarious doctors wanting to sterilize indigenous women. But hey, I could be wrong.
As for sterilization at 25...yeah you're going to have little luck doing that. Even as a guy, you're unlikely to be able to talk a doctor into a vasectomy in your 20s unless you already have kids. I have a friend who is a doctor, and he will not perform either operation on somebody without kids unless it's for health reasons. As he explained to me, he used to perform the operation. But after a while, many women regretted it later on and decided they wanted kids. Many lashed out at him in anger. And yet others pleaded with him to reverse the operation, which he did, and when it didn't work, he had to watch their tears and watch their hearts break right in front of him. He couldn't deal with it. It was too much pain and the operation gave him too much anxiety. So he stopped performing it altogether. Of course he is a doctor in a smaller community and knows his patients on a more personal and intimate level than your average doctor. You're probably more likely to get a doctor to agree to that procedure if you go to a random doctor in a big city who doesn't have personable relationships and runs his/her hospital like a bank. Transactional only. But even then, your chances aren't great.
@@turinturambar347 No they didn't and no your friend didn't say that. If you look into actual studies (not news articles) its just under 6% of women who regret getting sterilization. But the main reason why those women give for regretting it isn't not having kids. It's the health problems and effects. Being sterilized makes your menstrual cycle more irregular and it messes with your hormones'.
Thank you for talking about the sterilization of indigenous woman, this has happened to native women before in history and many Canadian doctors are discriminatory/ racist towards indigenous peoples. Please talk about the missing & murdered indigenous women in the Brady Landfill near Winnipeg!
oh u mean the government leftist sanctioned sterilisation funded by fascist trudeas fascist corrupt government , shocker right that when u vote for evil u get evil? maybe u shud rethink ur life
@@Valerianroots I'll surprised if he does, he didn't make a video earlier this year when government officials held trans kids hostage during a protest about trans rights despite me and others asking. This is my first time watching him since because it frustrated me so bad lmao
One of the worst parts about disabilities is getting into concerts and events. Some venues are "nice enough" to provide 100 or so accommodations seats out of some hundred thousand or more seats.
@@mage1439 honestly it’s not surprising to me. Many north and South American countries abuse their indigenous women and Canada has been for a long time.
As someone who was raised in an oppressive cult and forced to take family pictures at each and every gathering, forcing a fake smile when you are absolutely miserable is not that hard.
I understand that, it's just hard to tell what's genuine and what's not. The whole point of faking it is to not show that anything is wrong. And if you're good at it, the second you talk about how you really feel, people will think you're lying, there's just no end to it...
In Japan there is a system that IDs disabled people. They receive a card, which they can wear pinned to their coat or bag if they wish. This card can also just be shown when needed. The US could easily do this with the same rules. Even if it was voluntary, it could save a lot of time and stress for disabled people and businesses.
It could definitely work but people would find a way to get one they don't need to take advantage and then there would need to be further proof it's necessary. We already struggle to get disability benefits for people who can't work. I've known of people getting rejected 3 & 4 times when they have paperwork from doctors stating they are incapable of working and it still takes years and multiple trips to court. And even then people think you're scamming the system and try to get that taken away. As long as Americans think others getting help is going to take what they have they'll never leave people alone.
Let me get this strait a doctor intentionally sterilized a woman without her consent. And the only punishment he received was having his license dropped for six months?
Incorrect, Andrew Katoska has not been practicing since the incident came to light. Though the board found no unprofessionalism in his statements made, they did find his decision to remove the other fallopian tube was unprofessional. The board found no evidence of racism and noted that there had never been another complaint against katoska and his colleagues regarded him as thoughtful and professional. In context, N.W.T has only had two incidences of misconduct in 12 years. So there is some misinformation here about this case which makes it seem intentional and endemic when really both are probably false claims.
I remember meeting and hearing the stories of Hispanic/Latina women that were forcibly sterilized in the L.A. area who were around my grandmothers age (and some who were younger) and thinking it was way to current for how horrific it was…the fact that it’s currently happening to indigenous women is fucking appalling
As a disabled person with a service dog, the flight and amusement park situation is 100x worse, and is extremely stressful. No matter how many times disabled people ask able bodied people to stop maliciously using our accommodations processes, able bodied people will never listen because they can’t STAND to wait in that long disney land line. Well…some of us actually can’t stand and you’re ruining it for us all.
I'm disabled and MAN it's hard enough getting help from the government with all the hoops they make you jump through. But now to TRAVEL I need documentation? Disgusting. I hope someone sues over this because it's absolutely going against the ADA.
As a woman with an invisible illness, it is shocking how many times I have people be rude to me when asking for accommodations. It's gotten to the point I will wear my braces & splints just so I don't have to argue to strangers that I am, in fact, disabled. That doesn't even begin to touch how much shame & embarrassment that comes from having to ask people to move in a crowded train, because I am too broken to stand on a moving vehicle at the age of 30.
I understand you completely. That’s such a hard thing for me too. Always having to defend myself and explain myself, because “I don’t seem disabled”. Also putting on braces and splits because I’m tired of explaining myself. At 26 and already had to many bad experiences with people disrespecting and not understanding you
Ironically, you somewhat have the fakers to blame, with the rest of the blame being somewhat on a badly regulated system. If the system was properly made and regulated, fakers wouldn't be able to get by. The rest is done by the lack of education and understanding that 'disabled' doesn't mean 'quadriplegic and unable to ever move', but simply that you need help because of the medical issues that you have, and that not getting help would cause you undue problems and distress that other passengers don't have top deal with. Fight for better education about disabilities, fight for a better system to regulate WHO is deemed disabled, and fight for bigger discouragement and punishments for people trying to take advantage of the system, while it still being understanding that some of them might actually need it.
if u can walk without assistance then you dont need to get on the plane early...its that fvcking simple. im a 100% disabled iraq war veteran who got hit by an IED. i cant move like i used to, thats for sure, but ill be damned if im gunna be wheeled through the airport just so i can board the plane first as if im special... grow the fvck up and stop letting your "invisible illness" define who you are and what you can do. you CAN stand on a moving train so stop pretending like you cant. im so sick of this woah is me bs the entire world projects now. people used to have pride in a way they didnt want "special treatment" cuz they have health/movement issues, now it seems like everyone and their obese momma want to be treated special and even post how "special" they are on social media so people can say how StRoNg they are...gtfoh! ITS GROSS AF!!! Get on the plane, train, whatever asap, find a spot, then continue on with your life...its that easy and you aint special just as i aint special cuz i got 13 pieces of shrapnel through my legs, hips, and back...
Honestly I'm regularly too scared to ask for accommodations because outwardly I'm a healthy 31 year old(or when I was in my mid 20s) Because it requires me to reveal that i have mental health issues and autism. I get treated better by most people who simply don't know. But sometimes in a work environment I need accommodations like when I needed my job to alter my schedule because the shift hours varied so much I couldn't get on a sleep schedule or take my medicine at regular times.
@@spiritbx1337 Honestly I'm of the other opinion. I don't think we need to necessarily crack down harder on the fakers. In an ideal world, you could. But we don't live in an ideal world, and trying to crack down on the fakers just means that more legitimately disabled people get caught in that, too. I'd rather 10% fakers get away with it and 100% disabled people get what they need than no fakers but only 90% of disabled people getting through. If we had more supports for everyone, more healthcare funds and more kindness, maybe less people would feel the need to fake it.
I live in Quebec and we're hearing these stories of what atrocious things are done to First Nations more and more, and I'm glad their voice is finally starting to be heard louder. They have every right to be angry at our governments, and they're so often abused by our medical staff, it's infuriating. I'm glad there's a lawsuit, and I hope every medical professional guilty of such heinous crimes get their license revoked for good, plus victims getting compensated. But I also think it's critical that people who works in close proximity with BIPOC communities get educated on their culture, history, and needs. We all need to do so much better. Canada is NOT the nice, perfect country it's portrayed to be. Far from it.
Wow, the idea that a patient not verbally answering a question would be taken as a yes is crazy. Would love to hear how racism/sexism isn't involved in that.
Right? I work insurance sales, and I can't sign anyone up without a hard "yes." I can't accept a "sure," "okay" or anything else. It HAS to be a "yes." Meanwhile, docs out there just doing sterilizations with a nod.
Not racism or sexism? Then why is it looking like it. Because unless it’s not non colored women saying this happening it just sure seems like there’s something along those lines.
@@marisolaquino719 you misread what the poster wrote. They used a double negative in the sentence which means that they believe racism/sexism has to be a factor.
Being an Indigenous mother, they also try to force you to take birth control. Even when I mentioned multiple times that I did not want birth control because I didn't do well on it, they asked for every single prenatal visit until 2 months after birth. When I said no they gave me an annoyed gasp leaving me feeling guilty. They will even ask you every time they come in the room once you give birth. For the first five prenatal visits, they asked me if I wanted an abortion after I mentioned it was a wanted pregnancy each time. I have asked non-Indigenous mothers if this happens to them and they said no. Our health care system is not the kindest and most practitioners are very rude making you feel less than human.
Lizzo’s pictures are nothing. I can smile through being miserable and I’m not a professional performer. It’s their job to keep smiling no matter how bad it gets
I mean, they also made it seem like the women in that incident were more straight up sex workers than cabaret performers which is a big difference. So either someone has the instances mixed up or someone is bending the truth. We’ll see what evidence is brought to the court.
We need more forced sterilizations, not less. Im tired of these people shitting out kids and then crying, "Oh, I cant pay for them! I need others to donate to me thru tax dollars to take care of my kids" If you cant afford to have kids, then dont have kids. Work on yourself first. Im tired of paying for your kids just for them to grow up to be just as lazy as you, or worse, criminals.
As someone who used the disability system at Disney due to an invisible disability I did feel very judged by other guests. Some of the people I was with had an attitude that didn't help, but I was very aware of the look of it since my disability isn't something you can easily see.
The stares I got were crazy. Also, constant crossing in front of me and stopping in my way. At one point I also had to yell at people to let me out of a building because they kept walking in front of me in a doorway. I WISH I didn't need a wheelchair or scooter to get through a day at Disney
I'm from Quebec and I actually once wrote a paper about the sterilization of Indigenous women for a humanities class. I remember reading instances of women who were sterilized believing they were only getting contraception and not being sterilized and like you mentioned the language barrier sometimes plays a part which is really upsetting because you can't reverse the decisions that were made to these women. edit: I'd like to clarify that saying language barrier is a little vague and there was likely abuse of power from doctors either not trying to understand these women or deceiving them by taking advantage of Indigenous women who don't speak wither English or French.
@@fast1nakus you're absolutely right and even if there was some misunderstandings due to language, it is the responsibility of the doctor to have informed consent from patients before performing irreversible procedures.
I am not surprised about the sterilization of indigenous women. They have been doing it for years in some communities, I’m just happy that it’s finally coming to light. Please do more stories on indigenous peoples in Canada cause there is ALOT of stuff that keeps getting swept under the rug. #MMIW #searchthelandfill
@@no.6808 it is funny that when things like this happens somehow the party affiliation isnt mentiond of the pp ldoing it , we all know its the leftist fascist government in canada who is doing this and all the left wil ldo is ignore it because it for their cause and theyre doing it becasue its progressive dont you know!!!
My mother purposely stayed in British Columbia during pregnancy with me because the Alberta hospitals would move pregnant indigenous women to the Royal university hospital in Saskatchewan
WAIT! You’re telling me that people pretend to be happy to keep the job?!? Ive never heard of managers constantly asking people to smile while walking around the sales floor!
@@zwenkwiel816 well if she forced them to do things like they alleged in their lawsuit then yeah. Even if not, the whole “you gotta do what your boss says or fear repercussion” culture has to stop.
@@GMAceM I kind of disagree. And I'm fucking anti social. People just need the balls to say no. Like we do after work shit sometimes at my job. I only do it when I want to. Also feel like the boss has some rights here. Like they're entertainers if partying is part of the job and the boss would rather hire people who like to party than so be it. Sometimes you're just not a good match. No reason to sue or force an employer to hire people they don't want to...
@zwenkwiel816 It's easier said than done. They have bills to pay, families to support. "Standing up" to an unhinged boss could get you fired and potentially ruin your chances of getting hired anywhere else. Your second point is completely ridiculous. I like to party, sure, but I wouldn't feel comfortable attending a topless cabaret or being told to fondle a performer's breasts just because my boss wanted me to.
@@_archieee no it wouldn't and if it would than so be it. Like you people act like bosses just do this shit on their own but they don't. That's not how culture works we're all part of it so just man up and this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
I am disgusted that the dancers smiling or continuing with their jobs is used as evidence that they were not abused. I would hope we would never say to a person in an abusive relationship or who was abused as a child that it's not true because they didn't speak out at the time or try to leave or even were seen smiling in a photo around the time of the abuse. Absolutely horrendous argument.
As a child abuse survivor, that was my first thought. Smiling for a photo says nothing about the emotions behind the mask. They were just trying to maintain their boss’ brand.
I was in a horribly physical and psychologically abusive relationship and I smiled in every photo we had together. Makes me so sick to see people trying to use that as evidence against abuse.
An inherent problem with disability aid is that the disability itself can make it hard to jump through the hoops to get help. Consider ADHD. Those with severe ADHD are going to have a much harder time keeping up with psychiatric appointments & filling prescriptions than those with less severe symptoms, or misdiagnosis. This means when shortages on medications come around, those with the worst symptoms are going to be hit the hardest.
Yea there's sooo many people who need something more than a caseworker, they need an aid, with paperwork and to represent their best interest, and that barely exists most of the time. Not for a lot of the day to day or week to week issues that are so common when you have a mental illness, mental disability, or neurodivergent mind.
Yep, my favorite way to point this out to people is with glasses, I’d be disabled without them, I couldn’t go to school because I couldn’t see the board or drive anywhere without them but because we have a common cheap accommodation and assistive technology for it I’m perfectly normal. Well that’s a lie I still have ADHD but the the point is disabled people aren’t disabled when the world is built with them in mind, they wouldn’t have to go through crazy hoops if the world wasn’t trying to get rid of the disabled people in the first place.
As a fellow adhder I find it beyond frustrating and overwhelming. Yes, I'm a 31 year old, 220lb, relatively fit and quite physically capable man. I can deadlift 405lbs no sweat, and bike 60k with much sweat. I'm good with my hands. I'm a pretty good student when need be. But dammit I literally despise my brain. If an alien race came by with a wonder laser that could excise the adhd part of my brain I don't think I'd hesitate for a second. Fuck whatever part of myself I'd lose, I'd beg them to make my brain normal. I wish my brain would just fucking work, for one gawd damn day.
@@brawlybard7014 hey man, I think you might have some internalized ableism and maybe it would be a good idea to work through that. I know it helped me a lot and plenty of other disabled folks too. I’m not sure why you feel this way, but I do know feeling like that made me feel miserable and working though it helped a lot.
I have seen photos of people smiling and acting happy literally hours after being beaten by their partner - Putting on a smile for a photo doesn't mean you're actually happy, comfortable, feeling safe or anything similar.
The worst part about homelessness is that it would cost less in the long term to solve than to continue ignoring it. Between decreased energy room visits, police costs, and public sanitation costs it costs around thousands less per year to give someone a home. Unfortunate homelessness is a problem of cap¡tal¡sm and won’t be solved as long as that system continues. It exists as a threat to workers like you and me, an implicit “stay in line or this will be you”
Canadian here. I can honestly say, I haven't heard a single peep about this court case in Canadian news. Not even a mention of it. Which just goes to show the treatment indigenous community in Canada gets. There are entire communities of Indigenous people in Canada without running water & I can assure you it's not because they want it that way. The government has always & continues to treat them as 2nd class citizens & ensures the Canadian population doesn't hear or know anything about it. But in typical Canadian fashion, you can be damn sure the shooting in the California biker bar made front page headlines. Most Canadians won't care & will continue to pretend like we're the best country on earth & and look down at America & scoff and say the usual "I could never live there" or "what a backwards country" etc. while having no idea what actually goes on in their own country. It's exhausting.
@@TheGallantDrake We're America light. We just follow most of what they do. America has a massive influence globally. It is the global hegemonic super power.
I have a service dog and it has gotten SO much harder to travel with her, really since the pandemic. It's crazy the paperwork that the cruise my family is going on required for her, and we will definitely be bringing hard copies.
I'm a Canadian, and just this past week I attended a rally for missing Indigenous women and children in Winnipeg. As a white man, I can't even begin to describe how moving it was to hear the stories of their missing family members. What's worse is that with the situation in Winnipeg, a lot of the missing people are assumed to have had their bodies dumped in a nearby landfill, but the local and federal government have refused to perform the search because it would not be worth the cost. To hear families talk about how they were told that their missing loved ones were not worth looking for was gut wrenching, and I truly hope our government starts to do better. We have completely failed an entire group of people whose stories deserve to be told.
Thank you for talking about the struggles of the disability community. It’s a perspective that rarely gets talked about, despite being the largest marginalized group.
Something worth mentioning when it comes to the homeless, I've lived in and around Belfast for nearly 20yrs and I had a short spell of being homeless. I was lucky and got a space in a hostel and was rehoused in less than a year. Before then I obviously knew homelessness was a thing but I had no idea just how many homeless ppl there actually were. It was after that time that I began to see just how many ppl there were on the streets. Noticed the lines and crowds at specific times trying to get a bunk at the shelters. A lot of homeless ppl are there due to mental health and speaking from experience, the sense of shame is overwhelming. These are ppl that don't want to be seen and these are ppl a lot of us never looked for or ignore as we're wandering around. Imo those you do notice in the average city are just the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks for talking about the disability accommodations story! My sister has been dealing with all of the hoops you have to jump through for disability accommodations at DisneyWorld and Universal right now. She's going on a trip to celebrate kicking cancer's butt for the 4th time and trying to get accommodations has been so frustrating for her. She got accommodations for DisneyWorld just fine, but Universal has been so terrible to her.
@@pyramidion5911 It is her number one bucket list item and she thought she might not make it through her battle with cancer this time. So the trip is very important to her. She can spend all of her money there if she likes, I'm just happy I'm not losing my sister.
I interned at a tenants rights organization this summer in LA. The government isn’t the solution and they haven’t been the solution. Grassroots organizations are the ones that actually listen and respond to the issues of the people. They’re just severely understaffed and underfunded. However from what I’ve seen they do more with less than the government. If this is an issue you’re passionate about or you yourself need help, please reach out to your local tenants rights organizations!
That requires people to actually put effort in, which generally speaking? Is the main reason this is an "issue" in the first place. People in general are not at all willing to put effort into anything these days. Locally, I see people complaining about not being able to find a job or not being able to afford rent or whatnot... while simultaneously the place that my dad runs has been hiring for positions that pay more than you remotely need to live here that have next to no requirements for the past 6 years non-stop. You expect people to actually take action to improve their lot in life? That's never going to happen. Ever. They'll just complain non-stop online instead, because they couldn't make it on RUclips/Twitch and don't want a real job. Self-entitlement is the biggest issue plaguing the modern day. People just expect everything to be done for them, to be solved for them, while they just ignore jobs, ignore places for rent, ignore the ability to move somewhere that's not a major overpriced city, etc. etc. I've legitimately given up on most of the population of this country at this point, because there's literally several hundred homeless people camping out about 3 blocks away from a place that has been short staffed for the past 6 years and not a single one of them has applied for a job there, yet they constantly complain that they can't find work and can't afford rent. And the place literally pays on average lower middle class wages. Not even "poverty line". And would gladly hire literally anyone that applied.
@@AtomicArtumasOh the place that your dad runs has been hiring? Congratulations man you just solved homelessness. But since the only evidence you have is anecdotal why don't I give mine. I was in a homeless shelter during the entire pandemic lockdown. I actually had a job monitoring the shelter I lived in. And every single person in the shelter had a job. But thank you for your useless fucking input on something you don't know shit about it.
@@AtomicArtumas You've definitely never tried to apply for a job. Also, most jobs require you to have an address so of course homeless people aren't going to get it. But even housed people have trouble getting jobs. You capitalists keep claiming there's jobs everywhere, but why isn't anyone getting them after applying? Half the listings on indeed are fake and the other half? The company will just ignore you. I only got my job because I harassed multiple recruiters until one finally said they had a job. I've had jobs ghost me, tell me that despite having job lists, they're only "hiring internally". Sometimes they'll email me with an interview offer, only to rescind the offer later. I'm college educated, fit all the requirements on every job I applied for and only 1 gave me the job after literally harassing them for it. I couldn't even get retail jobs because, guess what, I'm "overqualified". So tell me big guy, what's your solution to that? Why don't you go out and try to find a job and see what's up. These companies are lying about needing workers. Probably so they can get some tax benefit.
Speaking of bureaucracy! Here’s a quick homeless story I’m STILL going through. When you’re homeless in NYC they give you a number called your “Cares ID”. This is your homeless person tracking number, so they can keep track of you in their system. When applying for income restricted apartments, your cares ID is essential, as it is tied to your time being homeless. You need to have been homeless for a certain amount of time to receive help, and your cares ID is how they track that. It’s supposed to be tied to your social security number (if you have one). Somehow I’ve wound up with 2 Cares IDs, and this has caused some of my paperwork to be rejected. One Id says I’ve been homeless for 2 years, and the other says I’ve only been homeless since May (which would disqualify me from getting certain services). It’s been quite the process having them combine those ID’s. This one step alone has taken several months. This doesn’t even include everything that was necessary to get to this point. The bureaucracy that the homeless need to jump through, just to have a normal life is fucking asinine
I live in Eugene, Oregon. There was a push by St. Vincent de Paul and local advocates to turn an empty lot into a large, affordable housing complex; however, the city sold the land to developer who turned it into a luxury hotel. This is a governmental issue where city officials are being bought off my the rich. Then you have the upper middle class who don't want low income housing in their neighborhoods, while in places like Lake Oswego, Oregon (actually nicknamed "Lake No Negro" due to the city's long history of inherent racism) using their housing associations to legally discriminate against the poor and non-whites. HUD has said that rent shouldn't be more than a quarter of your monthly income, which would be about $600 a month here in Oregon; however, rent is often about $1200. The government needs to step up and start looking after the people and not their own pocket books.
23:25 I feel like every veteran that I had to deal with the VA for disability can relate mad hard to the government being bad at the basic stuff it’s supposed to do. Honestly most active duty people can probably agree.
I'm a Canadian, and generally I like to think of that fact in a positive light, be proud of where I'm from and the best of us. But that's not at the expense of pretending like utterly reprehensible treatment towards indigenous people, in particular women, is somehow a distant memory that Canada has healed and moved on from. It hasn't. The damage is still festering, we're still doing it, and it's still a national embarrassment that every Canadian should seethe with contempt towards those that permitted or perpetrated these crimes on our fellow countrymen. Because they are, legally, Canadian citizens. Indigenous people themselves may have some *extremely valid* issues with me saying this but I'm asking for some leeway because I want Canadians to take care of Canadians. Especially ones that our government, and the governmental heritage it has, have completely screwed over at almost every goddamn point in history. We negotiated with indigenous nations until they didn't accede to our government's demands so we stole their homeland from them. Then we have the historical audacity to justify things because the next nation signed away their rights after we showed up to that negotiation covered in the blood of their peers. They took what they could get out of fear of being murdered. That's what indigenous people mean when they say, "They took our land." To say nothing of the systemic abuse and overtly deliberate cultural genocide that was perpetuated on them for, what? Decades? Given that it's still going on we're hitting a *century* of abuse. And no, we haven't made it right. Not even close. Indigenous people, *especially indigenous women*, are still putting up with white people doing this insane shit to them while arguing that their goals justify it to this @#&ing day!
Thank you for talking about the indigenous Sterilization problem that's been happening here in Canada. I was disgusted with the numbers that RUH alone had done the year my 2nd daughter had been born.
I've noticed that for some disabilities, the disability in question makes jumping through hoops to get help for the very same disability. Raising the bar tends to mean those who are solely there to exploit the system do still, and those with genuine issues have to actively play up their issues if they want a chance to get the help they actually need.
@@elperronimo if they are at risk of losing their human rights by staying where they're fleeing *from,* then yes, coming into another country that is "not their own" is a human right. (also, braindead American talking about "coming into another country that is not their own" 😂)
Greenlandic Inuit were also forcibly sterilized in the 60s-70s 💔 Around half the women and girls of "childbearing age" in the whole country were forced or coerced to get IUDs. Girls as young as 13! And as many women know, getting IUDs inserted can be extremely painful and traumatic even as a willing adult, I can't imagine what it was like for those girls. These IUDs weren't even like the ones we have today, the ones inserted weren't meant for women who hadn't given birth yet, cause it was quite large. One woman said it felt like the state had taken her virginity. Some women didn't even know it was inserted until much later, since it was done after just having given birth or having abortion All my love and empathy to our sisters in Canada, we feel with you 💔
As someone who has been doing a lot of research over the years to learn more about my families history, it is absolutely true there are many indigenous women who are not only forcibly sterilized they also more likely to have their baby removed forcibly even with no verified reason. It happens so often even today it's horrible. I'm glad to see this issue is actually coming to light and people are being heard. 🧡
@@garrettwhite3922 No, it's a priorities issue. People care more about stopping people from abusing the system than they do about helping actual disabled people.
About the AI. The issue isn't about it existing and being used, but about it being trained on copyrighted material without copyright owners permission, petentially replacing the copyright owner. That's the issue. There need to be boundries set. For example, companies should not be allowed to use generative AI to do concept art, it should only be used to make refference images for concept artist to go off of, like they are now with other images pulled from the internet. Appart from the reference image/text, generative AI must not be used.
Something's gotta change with housing in general cause it's ridiculous. Couple years back I went back to Cali for a friend's wedding and the drive from San Jose to Sacramento there were so many homeless along the highways. Not unlike how i remember it, but as it'd been a few years at that point it was shocking to see it again and see its still that bad if not worse. Needs to be some sort of capping on rent or buy costs. I'd suggest a limit on ownership too, but people will find a way to skirt around that too....
We might have to start getting fingerprints otherwise the deed cannot be made official and ownership denied. Corporations would be hard pressed finding an ink pad big enough to help get the front door handle on paper
A photo of you smiling doesn’t mean everything is kosher. There were plenty of photos of me with my ex taken right after he had SA’d me, physically assaulted me, or done a number of other things. Happy looking photos don’t mean anything. I don’t know what the truth is in this situation, but the photo argument makes my blood boil.
Honestly if smiling photos is all you have as proof or your main evidence as proof as a magazine and a celebrity’s lawyer then they probably are grasping for straws because they know they are screwed otherwise. Either way Lizzo and her legal team are gonna drag the lawsuits out as long as possible to keep the plaintiffs from making anything off of it or causing them to drop it if they can’t pay their lawyers
These women weren't forced to be there and there was no gun holding them hostage. These were adult women who DECIDED to stay and participate. Even in their interviews they said no one explicitly told them anything they just "felt" a way.
@@enfpchick You have never been to a party for work before. They say those things aren’t mandatory but if you don’t have a decent reason not to go then you’ll be critiqued for not being a team player in your next review and likely not be getting as much of a raise as you deserve and would be one of the first to be let go
On the homeless surge, as a teen who spent 2.5 years on the streets I can confirm the cascading effect being homeless is,because it becomes more difficult to stop being homeless if you lack family or friends, the longer you go the harder it is to get out.
I'm disabled and when I fly it's the most dehumanizing experience bc I'm fairly young (37) and my disability isn't visible to the naked eye, people think I'm just being lazy. It can really be awful.
Yep. I’m 45 but look 30, and I have a heart defect that prevents me from walking more than 50 feet, so I use a wheelchair at the airport, and they have me skip all the lines. I hate it, but that’s the wheelchair route, so I just keep my head down and stare at the floor the whole time. I hate it so much.
I work on history and social studies textbooks in Canada. Forced sterilization, the Sixties and Millenial Scoop, Birth Alerts, MMIWG2S, and Residential/Day Schools are some things we're trying to make sure kids know about. It's a hard fact to stomach, but it's the truth. We like to pretend we're accepting and diverse, but we have a lot of skeletons in the closet that need to be taught. We pretend its in our past but this crap still happens. If you need a good book about some of the issues that First Nations deal with in Canada, read Truth Telling. It's heavy.
I have a psychiatric service dog because of my severe PTSD among other things, and these ESA pets have caused many people to try and tell me my service dog "doesn't count" and I have to go through a lot of hoops for simple things. I wish people across the board were better educated
The only time I've had to kick out animals is when they're biting and growling at other people. I honestly don't care what you bring in as long as it is safe. And most stores aren't even allowed to ask you, anyway.
@@OGimouse1 usually they try to kick her out without asking or any behavior because they want to stop it before it starts or something. She's also not the typical golden retriever people think of, so that doesn't help. Non reactive honestly don't bother me as much, but the reactive ones with uneducated owners who clicked an ad to certify their pet really make me mad
Forced sterilzation was really commonplace in the south after slavery was outlawed in the US. Many doctors performed it on black women without consent and in most cases didn't even tell them, even if they went in for basic things, as the doctors would often talk them into procedures that would let them sterialize the women. This is sickening to see still happening, especially since it's likely just as racially motiviated.
The problem with requiring "Certification" that any animal is trained to be a service animal is that here *isn't* single federal service that trains these animals, they all come from hundreds of local trainers which means that 1) not every legitimate trainer will be recognized by every organization asking for the certifications and 2) any scammer can just as easily get fake certification for their untrained animal and pass it off as legit. requiring certification does nothing to stop the issue of people passing untrained animals as trained and only serves to hurt those who actually need the animals.
@@stanleyhape8427 Regulation at such a scale requires a lot of money, which means it needs to be subsidized by the government. Try and convince congress to spend *more* money on social services, I don't think it's gonna work.
Thank you for including the segment about travel as a person with a disability! I am blind and have a service dog. Fortunately for me, I do not travel more than once or twice a year, but the paperwork is a huge hassle! I feel like I could never plan a last minute trip for fear that the I wouldn't get everything squared away in time. I am attending a work conference in a few months. My employer is handling the travel arrangements, and I am concerned that with having a thrid paryt involved who isntis potentially not as familiar with the service dog paperwork, something might go awry and I could be separated from the group.
When I worked as a unit clerk in north eastern Alberta, a woman with children in care was having a baby. She had to have a c section, and during that time she was sterilized. I could not believe it-this was my family doctor! Disgusting.
As a parent of a child on the spectrum I'm actually disgusted. I recently took a 19hr drive to take my kids to Disney for the first time and was met with issues and push back at their Orlando location. We made the most of it but it make so much sense why we had to jump thru hoops just to secure one ride fourty minutes to and one hour and thirty before hand. If you have ever pretended to have a disorder or any mental delays just to beat people for the long lines, just know there are many children with these diagnosis who may only ever get one chance to go. And those are the ones who suffer. I had to sacrifice a lot to take my kids. There are parents who have sacrificed so much more. Please be better. Thanks for filling me in Phil...that one kinda hurt.
I don't know why anyone would take their disabled anyone to Florida--the State that doesn't believe in fetal abnormalities or that disability is a spectrum. The average Floridians during the pandemic were very open that death isn't the worst thing and that so long as you can breathe you should be able to work and pay taxes--and that anyone else was worth culling. I will absolutely never buy anything that in any way enriches Florida because of their attitudes toward who is considered worthy.
Getting diagnosed with major anxiety/depression, the “everyone has this” condition, it angers me people will use this against others who need it. Like Sensory overload is real, yeah being around people can stress one out but that can easily be taken care of individually. I worry for my friends who aren’t able to handle it because of their condition.
Yep. My rent at a low income apartment was being raised 50 bucks a year. That eventually made my shitbox apartment not worth it. Thankfully, I was able to afford a better apartment. And the cost was near the same because of the consistent increases. I spoke to a woman who lived there on her retirement checks. She told me that the complex gives her an allowance and takes rent from her. She paid 1800 for a single bedroom apt in a section 8 crap apt complex. I paid 1600 for a 2 bedroom....
I wasn’t aware until I was truly independent not too long ago how many people ruin things for people like myself with disabilities because they think it’s okay to use a “loophole”. We do our best to function in a society built for you, not us.
One of my disabilities is anxiety...& I do mean 1, there's multiple mental & 1 physical diagnoses...& having to do something like this would just put me into a huge tail spin. It's not right & I can't see how it's legal.
@@munkustrap2 I’m the same way. Anxiety is only one of many of my mental and physical disabilities and before I moved out on my own I didn’t know how terrible people can be. Wishing you luck 💜
The people taking advantage of the loopholes are scumbags, but for the corporations to make it difficult for everyone not realizing how damaging it is to truly disabled people is scummy in itself. They don’t actually care about disabled people. I’d rather scumbags taking loopholes to be alongside the disabled people (& hopefully getting charged criminally) than corporations making it difficult for disabled people to get the necessary accommodations.
The people taking advantage of the loopholes are scumbags, but for the corporations to make it difficult for everyone not realizing how damaging it is to truly disabled people is scummy in itself. They don’t actually care about disabled people. I’d rather scumbags taking loopholes to be alongside the disabled people (& hopefully getting charged criminally) than corporations making it difficult for disabled people to get the necessary accommodations.
I hope the people who pretended to have a disability to cut lines or take their pet on a plane with them never have to experience what it is truly like to live with a disability. EVERYTHING is so hard for those with a disability, and it truly sucks we have to make it HARDER on people who have a disability because other people suck.
I will say as a person who is and was homeless in Anchorage Alaska, as well as being a local/national advocate for decriminalized homelessness I will say HUD has put in its most recent NOFO (Notice Of Funding Opportunity) that decriminalizing homelessness is a priority. There are boards of young people (14-24) all around the country working hard to speak the truth they’ve lived to our government and we have seen amazing change in the attitude in our republican Senator Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowsky has always in my experience been an advocate for housing the people who need it the most. We *are* making progress in some places it’s not all doom and gloom. We can do this as a humanity! ❤
As an Alaska Native, Tlingit, the forced sterilization of native women is nothing new and happened regularly until the 70s and still happens but isn't as shamefully up-front about it. The atrocities done to our peoples, all American Native peoples, is so ridiculously high it would blow people's minds. America and Canada, and the fact that we've only uncovered a small portion of the Canadian boarding schools where these kids were forced out of their homes, died, and never returned home leaving a huge hole in these family's lives.
It's not enough they steal your land, deny your religion, customs, and language, they want to steal your children again but now they steal them before they are born. This is how great their fear is.
Oh man. As an Alaskan, I’ve been around. I’ve heard some state troopers took a few villagers a few miles out of town and forced them to walk back without shoes or socks. It’s fucking ridiculous how we’re treated :/
I'm an adult with autism. Unfortunately I was diagnosed by a facility that no loner operates, and so it has been extremely difficult to obtain a record of my disability. Since I'm not confined to a wheelchair and don't "seem" autistic to most people, it's been expensive and time-consuming to get a diagnosis as an adult. For some families it would literally cost more to get the paperwork to prove a disability exists than to spend three days at a theme park. I know people abuse the disability honor system, but making people with disabilities jump through more hoops when they're in metaphorical (and literal) wheelchairs is not the answer.
I feel you. I was diagnosed with several things as a kid and stopped seeing that clinic at 18. They only keep the records 10 years, so now I can't get copies of them after losing mine. I cannot afford a new diagnosis. Providing paperwork for something I've had my entire life is currently impossible.
Everyones so desperate to be disabled these days. Literally anyone can be classified as having some kind of mental illness. Its all a game don't play into it.
People are homeless because of the rampage of landlords. Housing for profit is monstrous. People have been sold an idea that "real estate" is their best bet to grow their wealth, this is killing people. It's a huge problem, END HOUSE HOARDING.
My mom works for a rental company. She says rich people who live out of town and even out of country buy properties here to rent out. Even rich local families (who also rent out properties) will buy their adult kids properties as gifts, so they can have that rent income as well. It's so ridiculous and frustrating.
@@jessicam3233 definitely. Our landlord is a "mom and pop" millionaire who inherited an insurance company. Class stratification is a huge problem and housing is at the top of the list of problems.
That definitely is the problem…but I can’t blame anyone with the money to buy property and rent it out with the way the commodity and market is. If I had the money…
Game Theory is probably my favourite gaming Channel because it explored questions I had always had myself about those games I played. I'll never forget discovering that Channel back in 2014 and being absolutely HOOKED with all the Mario and Zelda theories. I like brainy Channels.
I really hope the homeless topic gets some headway soon.. I'm one bad day for my landlord away from being on the streets. I'm scared. My partner got laid off from their job with no luck finding new employment so far.. Bills and rent have had to go unpaid in order to just keep ourselves alive and for transportation (cause we lost our car in an accident a few years ago). We need more funding into programs that ACTUALLY HELP. Preventative and beyond. Normal every day working such as myself are in real fucking danger... You'd think we would qualify for some sort of crisis voucher etc or something right? No. Neither my partner nor I are a minority, classified as disabled or have any children. The country doesn't give a shit if we become homeless. It feels so hopeless. Can't catch a break.
People are so concerned that the “wrong people” will get help that they’ll allow hundreds to die just to punish one person.
They've never been concerned about the wrong people getting help until now, yet their stance is still the same. They're not concerned about the wrong people getting help, they're just saying that to get support for their greedy ideals. It has always been about them getting the most amount of money at the expense of other people. These people need to be in jail, but preferably worse.
As somebody who on the edge of homelessness even when I had section 8 housing. I can't work. I've been born disabled with degrading illnesses.
I magical can't get better. Only hold the bar from falling. I will get only worse. All my disabled pays solely for rent and I just got a letter saying it'll grow 50$ monthly with no cap.
My SO is barely keep food in the house my mil has to help. Everything just keeps breaking down. I can't find an way to break even. I'm so scared of bring homeless in texas in this heat. It will kill me.
@@littlestshadowobv I don’t want you to be homeless. But just to ease your nerves a little:
There are public places with AC where you can chill when it’s too hot. I would recommend getting a library card because they’re a great place to stay when it’s way too hot and if you have a library card then you can use the computers there
I’m sure there are more places but I can’t think of them rn😅 good luck tho!! This heat is seriously scary❤❤
@@WaffleSalad thank you.
@@YoUtUbEhAnDlEsArEgReAt then why does the lie work so well? We’ve been taught to inflict punishment, to only help the “deserving” as though any one of us knows how to even tell who “deserves” help.
Hi! My name is Elizabeth Schoen and I am the Minnesota College student who was denied access to the Jet Blue flight. Thank you so much to the Phillip DeFranco show for bringing more attention to this. I got lucky that I had a place to stay and the financial stability to pay for another flight. The fight for people with disabilities and service dog users to be able to just live their life is constant and draining. Thank you to all advocates who are helping us.
Suspicious....very suspicious
Yep. My boyfriend is completely blind with a guide dog, we booked a flight for his best friends wedding 6 months in advance. We showed up to check in and they said they changed their policy during those 6 months and his guide dog to get approved by a third-party which will take 48 hours. We told them we never received any communication, and they were super rude and tried saying we didn’t get a notification because we put his guide dog as a pet (I went back to our receipts and we never had a pet in our reservation and were never charged the $25 pet carrying fee. I called customer service later and they confirmed the pet was added the night we were trying to check in. I still believe the employees added it in without telling us so we would take the blame). My boyfriend had to book a last minute flight with American.
I don’t know how it’s legal when the DOT says airlines are not allowed to require any additional documentation outside of the two official DOT forms, I don’t know how requiring this application to their chosen third-party is allowed. DOT never completed the investigation after our complaint.
Just an anecdote relating to the disability story: My mom had Interstitial Lung Disease and could only walk for about 2-5 minutes at a slow pace before her oxygen levels dropped into the 80s and lower, so we pushed her in a wheelchair around Disney World. We got so many dirty looks and snide comments when she would stand up from the chair to walk a few feet to get on a ride, because some people think the only reason someone could need a wheelchair is because their legs don’t work. Thankfully, Disney itself was incredibly accommodating even though they never asked for any documentation. She died 3 months after that trip, so I’m glad we had a good experience over all.
Same thing happened when my sister just went to Disneyland. She had to get one of the motorized scooters because she had brain surgery which affects her balance, and has EDS which has caused her to need both ankle and knee surgery because her ligaments snap like twigs. People saw a 35 year old seemingly "able bodied" woman and glared at her but they could never fathom the amount of pain she endures everyday.
As someone who is also an ambulatory wheelchair user. This is so fucking annoying. So many people don't know that quite a high percentage of people using wheelchairs can walk --- it's that they shouldn't in those moments because of their disability
As someone with intermittent mobility issues, I get the dirtiest looks when I have my cane with me but stop using it or don't need it. I've literally had my cane kicked out from under me at a concert. People suck
Also an ambulatory wheelchair user here 🤚 I’ve made myself sick for fear of rejection and judgment instead of asking for wheelchair services when I needed them. No more, but the anxiety doesn’t go away.
I have a disability and I can’t walk very far or stand up for too long, so it’s much easier and faster for me to get around in a wheelchair. I also get snide comments and mean looks.
As a physically disabled person, there are endless examples of extra expenses and extra work that we have too do to get the accommodations we are supposed to be guaranteed by law since it's necessary for us to participate in society with everyone else. The ableism in our culture is still so unbelievably bad, even in otherwise decent people. And it's not just bigots who are horribly ableist, often without even understanding what they've just done. Thanks for brining this issue up! I'd love to see you do an interview with an advocate.
I wrote a paper not even a year ago for a GSWS class on the sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada. We have a pretty dark history of eugenics within our healthcare system that has been a massive and ongoing problem that most Canadians don't even know about.
I heard about this year's ago. I thought everyone knew about it.
A lot of false and misleading information circulates within our education system. Especially with regards to indigenous relations. The standards of proof aren't there, and critical examination is overshadowed by 'lived experiences'. We put the stories handed down through generations above the physical evidence from exhumed 'grave' sites. Social Work especially tends to focus on grievances rather than facts. People who engage in these studies, and those that write textbooks for them, are chomping at the bit for juicy morsels of oppression and this bias leads to a lot of false claims about our history. I just went through this with a girl who is studying this same subject. We fact checked many of the claims and they were demonstrably false.
As a fellow Canadian, I truly had NO idea about this and it’s absolutely terrifying 😞
Why are they calling out/questioning the doctors?!
@@hautehussey The Sexual Sterilization Acts haven't been law for 50 years. The only way this could be continuing now is by individual doctors who are willing to sacrifice their entire careers to do it. Either way Kotakas conduct was found to be unprofessional but not racist. The original acts in BC and Alberta were in regards to Eastern European immigrants of "feeble-mind". A good portion of those sterlized were British or other European. An estimated 7.1% of all cases between 1933-1936 were indigenous. The act was born out of a perceived crisis of European countries dumping "feeble-minded" people on Canada due to our generous immigration policies. Also the acts strictly prohibited sterlization without patient consent. It is totally disingenuous to call it the "forced sterlization of indigenous women" or to suggest that there is anything like a concerted effort to do so now.
Homelessness on the rise while buildings sit empty is genuinely such a slap in the face.
You want buildings filled with people who refuse to follow social norms?
Yeah it's crazy! I also think, though, that there is a portion of homeless people who actually enjoy the freedom of being homeless where they don't have to have the government involved in their lives at all and any money they get doesn't have to go to rent or anything but to whatever they choose. There's also a hierarchy, like there is in any social population, where a homeless person wouldn't want to lose their high social standing in a homeless community to be just above the poverty line and low social standing in the housed community. Plus a lot of unhoused are struggling with severe mental health issues and getting treatment is expensive and requires routine/remembering, and getting/keeping a job is something they struggle to do independently. I worked in an outpatient clinic when I was in college (I was going into the mental health field and got to try out different areas and see which I'd want to pursue in graduate school) and while some people successfully transitioned from outpatient to a halfway house for mental health ( basically they lived independently but had someone monitoring their meds) to getting eventually their own housing, there were others that would get so close to being ready for halfway housing and then they'd fake taking their meds and have a psychotic break and have to be readmitted to inpatient. A lot of the ones who "relapsed" into inpatient were those who were terrified of being on their own where they were in charge of their lives and supporting themselves with a job and such. We also had to go to court with them (drug court and/or mental health court) which decided where they were in their journey after reviewing with the outpatient clinic how their treatment was going. There was also a psychiatrist that visited the clinic once a week to check in on meds. A small portion of this outpatient clinic was unable to ever live independently and no matter what counseling/meds/etc they weren't getting or keeping a job much less feeding or cleaning themselves. These are those who become a portion of the homeless community in other places because they don't have room for people who will never be ready to transition to independent or even halfway house living, when there are so many with potential that need the slots instead. Needless to say, I did not go into outpatient clinic counseling because while 3% of it was awesome and I learned a lot and made progress with some of my clients and group therapy sessions, 97% of it was depressing, repetitive, and working with adults who may have baggage, families/friends who never see them, and who might never be able to take care of themselves on top of difficult to manage mental health issues. I went into working with teens in a school setting instead and that's my wheelhouse for sure. The people who work in intensive psych jobs and outpatient clinics burn out really easily (some of my coworkers were) but I also thought it was cool how they had "advisors" which were people who successfully completed the outpatient and other phases and got a job at the center working with the clients and encouraging those they could help make it through.
Capitalism is the most efficient system at killing poor people. Rich d*cks want you to die, if you're poor.
@@HouseMDaddictmaybe the homeless people should just move in anyway, maybe the red tape will stop em from gettin evicted too 💀💀💀
@@brandonking8509 a lot of homeless already do that. It's called squatting and it's really popular in urban areas especially where entire sections of a city are just abandoned. I remember volunteering at a soup kitchen in the town where my college was (not a huge town) and the city residents complained about the "lines of homeless" waiting to grab a table or groceries in the soup kitchen on the sidewalk being "visible" to residents driving down a main road and eventually the soup kitchen had to move like 4 blocks to the basement of a church instead of a store front which was more accessible to the people who needed it and it was right down the street from where AA and NA meetings occurred and where the outpatient clinic I was at was. I was incredibly angry about it because I'd sit with the people who'd come in and sit at the tables and hear their stories and chat with them over a warm meal we made (we'd make different recipes each night with fresh ingredients and they'd get a bag of groceries for the week, but could stop in any of the three nights we were open for dinner for a hot meal). There is a big city about 20-30 minutes from where I live and there's a huge homeless community that lives in tents along a river behind a Walmart plaza.
I think the US and Canada need to start forcing rent regulations. Its aleady rediculous as a price, and they are STILL raising it, with noone to check them. Its absurd.
@joeymchavarti1956a nation wide rent control is completely different from a single city.
Thing is, with rent raising and people being homeless, how are the landlords/people who own them getting money? Nobodies living in them so there should be vacant lots
@@kiwiseatpumpkinpie1709a lot of it is big companies or super rich people buying up Buildings and land in order to jack up prices. In turn it causes others to follow suit because more money can be made. They majorly rich also don’t need the place profitable immediately they can just sit on it while it appreciates
It will discourage private supply of rental properties, they tried similar policies in Australia. They need to increase the supply of affordable houses to buy and social housing but that’s considered “communism” so policies which will actually make a difference are too left wing for the American political system which is controlled by lobbyists as we all know.
@CptMasta take an economics course and you’ll see why you don’t want price ceilings when it comes to rentals. What the government needs to do is create much more subsidized housing and better housing efforts. Once you fix the supply issues, prices will go down.
The sterilisation story is so egregious. I had surgery on my uterus in New Zealand (another Commonwealth country) and the specialist took great care explaining that if they found anything unexpected they wouldn’t be able to address it then if there was any risk to ongoing fertility, as they didn’t have my informed consent. You weren’t able to ‘consent for hypotheticals’ in advance, they would literally need to schedule a second surgery at a later date to ensure you had a proper informed discussion and had support for decision making!
They could also bill you again lol. Unless healthcare in new Zealand is free but I don't know if it is or not.
@@justsomeguy1136New Zealand has universal healthcare. It's a first world country.
@@DarthChewie lucky bastards. I have to pay 1100 dollaredoos to get a tooth pulled.
Canada has an especially horrible relationship with native people. A lot of invisible violence, people getting disappeared by the cops all the time. 😔
Why does nobody take the 5 seconds to look past the sensationalist headlines at the actual documentation or at the very least the article?? When something seems too horrifying to be true, it usually is. Canada still going off after that school "grave" site was found to be a hoax or in a nicer way, jumped to conclusions?
Don't worry, I did the reading for you, here are the whole facts:
The doctor that operated on the woman:
A. Was informed that if there were complications, they will remove both.
B. He asked her if she planned to have MORE children, SHE SAID NO.
C. She had been having frequent ovarian cysts due to PCOS, which if she
was having severe pain and repeated cysts it's highly likely she had the
other e myriad of complications that go along with PCOS.
D. He is a certified teacher of Informed Consent to other doctors.
E. Not only was he a head OBGYN, he was the director of the department.
Ironically, him trying to find a way to remove the 2nd ovary and tube was him trying to HELP HER and save her a 2nd trip to the surgeons table, anesthesia, complication risks that come with every time you go under, time to recover, on and on. The comment that everyone is pearl clutching at is him thinking out loud if he will still be able to justify it for the national health insurance, since she was only approved for the 1 removal, but given she was a-okay with both being removed and said she had 0 desire for more children, if he could find a reason to do it in 1 surgery, it benefits her from having to get back on the waiting list to get the other one removed later.
But, nobody cares about what really happened. He was of course immediately put on leave as soon as the malpractice inquiry arose. And now he will be dragged thru the mud, and he will never have a surgical role again.
In fact, the only people taking advantage of her indigenous personhood are the lawyers & the politicians. 🤝💰🪙Nice job carrying water at the expense of someone's whole life, people!
The NY bicycle girl wasnt even a month ago, but here we go again! Ugh, it never ends. Stop and think!! 😡💢
As a Native American women living in North Dakota, I must say.
YOU’RE JUST NOW FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS??
I learned about these subjects since I was in elementary school. We’ve been getting sterilized since at least the 60’s without our consent. Even our own “Indian health hospitals” have been doing it without our knowledge. I’m so shocked that this is just now getting covered.
Were you sterilised?
I knew it happened historically and far too recently but never imagined it had happened within the last 20-30 years 😢 I’m sorry for my ignorance as part of my privilege for this.
Yes, Indian Health Service (IHS) did this in the 60s and 70s.
@@Veraux (were) please explain why the question is relevant
@@jimysk8er Thanks for correcting me, it was a slip of the finger, I didn't even notice.
You really can't see the relevance?you don't think the personal experience and first hand account of the person I asked is relevant at all? Are you saying that her experience is irrelevant? How about you answer your own dumb question. Tell me, why is my initial question relevant? It certainly was relevant enough for you to answer, wasn't it?
Endlessly frustrating that people still push the myth that people can't smile when they are uncomfortable/unhappy.
I was getting berated by men at work a couple years ago for smiling. I had just recently gone homeless from the the abuse at home escalating. I was working at a grocery store where its literally part of the job discription. But how dare I smile when life isn't just butterflies and rainbows.
Clearly none of the people who think that have ever done anything as common as worked a high-volume customer service job while suffering body pain. You learn to smile through A LOT.
It shows ignorance of the nuances of reality
Literally anyone in customer service can attest to what it is like being made to smile despite feeling the exact opposite.
This 'myth' was very obviously proven true by Ron Desantis in last nights debate
As a Canadian I find that appalling, Imagine having a hernia and waking up missing your testicles. I hope these Doctors get serious legal action, stripped of the MD's and prison time.
They'd probably put in silicone ones so you might not discover it till after going for fertility checkup.
Why does nobody take the 5 seconds to look past the sensationalist presentation at the actual articles? When something seems too horrifying to be true, it usually is. Canada still going off after that "mass grave" was debunked? The doctor that sterilized the woman was informed: A. If there were complications, they may remove both.
B. He asked her if she planned to have MORE children, SHE SAID NO.
Fun fact: She has been having frequent cysts due to PCOS and already planned not to have anymore children. Ironically, him trying to find a way to remove the 2nd ovary and tube was him trying to save her a second trip to the surgeons table, and still be able to justify it for the national health insurance. He was of course immediately put on leave as soon as the malpractice inquiry arose. And now he will be dragged thru the mud, and he will never have a surgical role again.
In fact, the only people taking advantage of her indigenous personhood is the lawyers & the politicians. Nice job carrying water over someone's whole life people! The NY bicycle girl wasnt even a month ago, ugh it never ends. Stop and think!! 🤬😡
This is one of the reasons why we indigenous people in colonised countries, distrust the health system so much. My heart goes out to my sisters in Canada. Such a tragic and cruel story.
We'll never truly know the cruelty done to indigenous people and the fact that this kind of crimes still occur is shocking.
As an Indigenous Women myself I could have a complete 12 hour podcast with just this, I can go on for hours about the shit you don't know about. Let me fill you in on just one of them. In the early 1900s when the Canadian Food Guide was made, they actually got the results for children by experimenting and starving/not giving the children the nutrients they need in residential schools.
I know this fact very well because in my area I got a residential school remnants and my grandpa went there and experienced such things. Except for him, they experimented on Medicine trials which he later died of cancer at 55 with the experiments they did to him.
This has been going on for so long, I'm glad it's getting international attention. Seems the only time the government steps in to protect indigenous people is when they're shamed into it by the rest of the world
@@purplekissy I could put money on Trudeau coming out crying again and making promises which will be forgotten by him the next week 😂
@kellobyte7984 the stories my grandparents told me about the boarding schools they were forced to go are vile. I don't understand how any of us are still follow catholicism after hearing that shit.
Yes, it’s been going on for decades.
The fact that these doctors arent getting their medical license revoked indefinitely is insane. Imagine getting a major life changing surgery without giving consent, let alone not even being told
Fucking agree. Child free women can’t get a sterilization but doctors can just decide someone who’s First Nations should without that person’s consent? Those “doctors” should never be allowed anyone medically ever again and should be sued for all their worth
It’s against the Oath, isn’t it? If it isn’t, get that loophole tightened, because this shouldn’t even have the _chance_ of happening.
@localmenace3043 unfortunately the oath is just a moral code and not legally binding. the actual action should have been illegal enough to completely revoke licensing and eligibility along with prison time though. insane how little consequences they face.
Doctors do not care about women, and they care less about BIPoC which means the people who gives doctors their power don't care about them either. The only way to ensure quality care is to advocate for yourself and if their is a language barrier is impossible which means it will be even harder to get these people the punishment they deserve because bureaucracy is hard enough to navigate in one's native tongue.
Meanwhile a certain doctor is being threatened to have their license revoked for having an opinion on the internet in canada. I am not sure what is happening in Canada recently but its not great.
On the bright side, anything the studios make with AI CANT be copyrighted so that will be incredibly fun for the internet
All they have to do is tweak the final product a little bit and they can AND will copyright it.
@@MrBizteck doesnt work like that unfortunately how much ai and human is copyright. would fail in court.
Unfortunately trademarking will still protect almost anything they would need to protect. Just look at disney’s legal strategy with their older products like winny the pooh
Nope. In the case that you are referring to it was deemed that only AI content with zero human input couldn't be copyrighted. Still don't know about content that has had human input, but its most likely going to be deemed copyrightable.
@@vKILLZ0NEv idk I feel like we’re at least gonna see a case about it before things become more clear. The content itself was made by ai, you don’t give a writers credit to autocorrect.
What's also hurting is the fact that grocery stores or at least the corporations behind them have drastically increase the price of product equivalent to that of the increase to food stamps doing it purely for the extra profits
Not to mention people get food stamps cut if they get more income to make up for inflation, because the income limits are static and not tied to inflation.
If you have a problem with capitalism, move to N Korea, where they have price controls and execute business people for price gouging.
I've been disabled and on food assistance for about 7 years now. I have never before struggled to put food on the table. I was always doing perfectly fine and I wasn't even getting the highest allotment. Now, at the highest SNAP allotment, I can barely make ends meet. I'm getting about 25% more money now and prices on most food have risen by over 50%. Not to mention there aren't nearly as many coupons now as there used to be and basically never any sales on staple foods. Purely for greed. These corporations are destroying the economy for greed and they're just allowed to.
Dude this. My husband went to Walmart last week, we bought what would be less than half of our grocery list cause we were short on supply.
About $90, usually our budget is $150.
What the actual f!ck
People are expected to pay their rent, utilities, these high ass groceries, gas money and still pay other essentials. And God forbid you're a parent having to make sure you are caring for those little humans too or your not a fit parent or abusing them when you're doing what you can just to get by.
I'm convinced our government actually just hates us.
Why has a political debate been reduced to a public roast competition? They're not debating anymore. They're just calling each other names and talking over each other. 😔
Probably because if they actually answered questions honestly, no one would vote for them.
Welcome to 2023. This is how people interact, scream their point and don't listen to others.
They want to be the next Trump.
Its embarrassing 😳 I was in debate club as a teen because I was concise and to the point with my answers and that was as a fifteen-year-old honestly these people should go back to 9th grade😂
Social media and algorithms.
I really hate when people talk about homelessness in LA and don't mention that it has been the policy of states all around the country to put homeless people on buses and send them to LA for decades
Why doesn't LA just traffic the humans back to where they came from? It's easy, as long as they continue to see these people as less-than-people.
@@lilpenguin092Because most of them come from red states and then those governors and senators can say the blue states are sending their homeless to red states and that's proof that democrats don't care and that they can't take care of their own so they shouldn't be in charge
@@lilpenguin092they just shuffle them around the city and stuff a bunch of them in hotels every night. Seems to be working.
The idea that 1 in 3 homeless are in LA?!Absolutely insane and devastating
Btw South Park covers the homeless being bused around back in 2007 (S11E5 Night of the living homeless)
@@lilpenguin092they do, I forgot what the program is called but they even fly ‘em to other states and the states would send them back due to no resources. It’s like every state is playing tag and dropping bags on each others porch. If they are lucky, when they run the clock long enough the problem expires. It’s sad and LA isn’t innocent, but he is right about the hot potato games being played.
It is sooooo weird that some women have huge problems GETTING sterilized while others are getting sterilized without consent.
I wanted to be sterilized for a while now and I only finally succeeded bc I had another goddamn teratoma tumor pop up this year. My sister has two kids and also wants to be sterilized and has changed gynos again hoping this one will actually listen to her about it. It’s infuriating seeing what we’ve had to go through to do this and some assholes will sterilize anyone regardless of consent.
Sadly, Doctors are letting personal beliefs get in the way. "Oh you're young (white) and healthy, you might change your mind!" vs. "there's already five of yours running around the reserve, lets prevent you from having more." As a Canadian, the fact that the Dr. mentioned only lost his license for 7months instead of permanently is gross.
@@seabrookmxjust fyi it was five months
Both issues are heat breaking violations of bodily autonomy, but it’s not by random chance that different women face one or the other. America’s legacy of eugenics is far reaching
This is the whhoollee point behind the reproductive rights movement. A “right to pregnancy” goes both ways.
Sterilizing indigenous women in Québec and Canada in general is sadly so frequent! A friend of mine who is a nurse told me this horrifying story. She was taking care of a patient before their hysterectomy. After waking up, the first thing the patient asked my friend is « When can I start trying to have a child again? ». Let me tell you, chills went down her spine as she realized the patient wasn’t aware that the surgery would prevent her from conceiving a child again. She had to explain everything and it broke her heart to see how little info the woman was given and how it was turning her world upside down.
Unless it's an emergency life or death situation where it physically cannot be done, not making sure they know the full ramifications of having a certain body part removed is one of the cruelest things I can think of. I can't imagine how heart wrenching it must of been to try to explain it and comfort her, let alone actually go through that.
@@aliceinwonderland8314 It's bc it's -not- rarely true. Canada saw how stirred up and reliable women voters are after the USA took abortion rights away, and they are trying to evoke a similar feeling.
For example, the story from today's is not what it seems:
The doctor that sterilized the woman was: A Informed her if there were complications, they may remove both.
B. He asked her if she planned to have MORE children, SHE SAID NO.
C. That doctor is an educator of consent to other medical staff.
D. She has been having frequent cysts due to PCOS, which causes a myriad of other problems along with pain, and already planned not to have anymore children. Ironically, him trying to find a way to remove the 2nd ovary and tube was him trying to ACCOMMODATE her & save her a second trip (plus waiting period, etc) to the surgeons table, and still be able to justify it for the national health insurance hoops he has to jump thru for it to be approved. He was. of course, immediately put on leave as soon as the malpractice inquiry arose, that was in 2019, the case closed last month and he has not been back to work yet. And now he will be dragged thru the mud, and he will likely never have a surgical role again.
In fact, the only people taking advantage of her indigenous personhood is the LAWYERS & the POLITICIANS.
@@aliceinwonderland8314 yeah it was very bad! Let’s say the nurse says « hi, I’m here to prep you for your hysterectomy ». Common sense would suggest that the patient has received pamphlets and had a pre-op information appointment. Hell… I had a 1 hour appointment for a nose surgery (septoplasty). Anyway, by having the patient agreeing to get the hysterectomy done, the nurse assumes she’s been informed at the pre-op appointment and that everything is fine. Just to find out that the surgery team didn’t follow protocols and she’s the one tasked to give her the terrible news 😔
Lack of care and communication from the doctor’s team towards the patient but also lack of communication and respect towards the nursing staff. It’s atrocious
As someone who is both Canadian First Nations and AFAB, this is something I’ve known about for a long time. The fact that so many people are shocked by this is really sad (edited for spelling and clarification)
Yes it’s been well documented along with the same egregious behavior by the US government as they also sanctioned the sterilizations of native women until the late 90’s with reports of drs still doing it up till the early 2k’s. People don’t know the facts because the public and media narrative of racial injustices are dominated by a specific demographic. The topic of race is usually black and white. We can’t even discuss this specific issue without comparison to the treatment of black women. Natives are always in shadow or a side note they tack on to the discussion. We are the “other”. When we talk about slavery it’s always discussed about the atrocities of African American / black communities however there was 11 million enslaved black persons AND 5 million enslaved indigenous people however 100 million indigenous people where murdered during a genocide and entire tribes where eradicated. By any single Available metric of racial injustice our indigenous people suffer the worse including police violence, education, income, abuse against women, missing women, equal employment, unemployment, healthcare, equal wage, housing, entertainment jobs, etc. Any metric.
Honestly same, saw the vid pop up at 7hrs old and had to do a double take like "oh that must have said 7 years right" 😅
I’m glad Phil is covering this though. I work with indigenous people in health care, and I find that often I’m having to throw in a cultural perspective for the medical team (I’m allied health) to consider. Consent isn’t just a nod, or a yes.. it’s actually finding out if your client actually understands the procedure and the side effects.
Similar things have happened to American native women, particularly between 1960 and 1970 but the practice started in 30s. This is well documented and not out of character for the United States during this period known for using human subjects in studying syphilis (Tuskegee Experience) and from 1950-1972 disabled children in Staten Island were purposefully infected with Hepatitis
The doctor was caught, and his only punishment was 5 months without a license?! He needs prison. Not a pause on his job.
@joeymchavarti1956what's their name
As a disabled person ive basically just come to expect no hope at all from government or private entities. Im lucky enough that i can generally manage independently but i worry for my disabled brothers and sisters who cant
Same though. It's a heartbreaking reality. I hope people start suing, because it's not our fault that we need accommodations to live relatively normal lives
same. and as time moves forward some disabilities, challenges, struggles, and issues just become progressively worse with time... it is so difficult to have to express to (even those that care about you) how much difficulty your personal health condition that may be "invisible to the eye" causes you day-to-day.
Especially, when you "function" when you are able to "manage" using words that maybe... they can kind of understand so they can get where you are coming from...
sometimes it feels like you speak a different language than they do ( metaphorically ) they want to understand - but it would be like explaining the color blue to a person that has never seen blue ever and cannot currently see it, and may never see the it...The color is very real to you but for them it's sorta abstract... you develop very good "word picture" skills to illistrate what you are going thru...
its exhausting... because usually these conversations occurr in a moment of crisis... and you are already struggling now you have to dissect what you are going thru ans try to explain something out of reach to them... to reason with them.. so you can help them understand.
it's so much.
and that is with someone that loves you and is trying to understand your situation better.
now.
someone who doesnt know you.
doesnt have the patience to get to know you... and is stressed because 20 ppl are behind you and maybe your challenges are really inconviencing the rest.
it makes you feel a bit detached from everyone around you... and you gotta fight to stay grounded to the present all while internally trying to calm and soothe yourself. its just so exhausting.
when you have a good day... you soak it up but not too much cuz even that can zap you of your energy.. so you soak it up to a threshold that you cannot pass or your illness will get overwhelmed and trigger something...
i appreciate the people in my life that just ACCEPT my issues and roll with them with me... and dont pressure me to explain my.. well 😂 my existance. why i am the way i am... that just allow me to be me... and help me push myself when i need to push myself and allow me to take a pause when i can sense i am about to over-do-it. they are my safety net.
Department of Education counts homeless students every single school day. There are 1.3 million children homeless last year. Who is not counted? Their parents and children that have no hit kindergarten. Why different than HUD? Different definitions. HUD cooks the books to manipulate numbers by changing the definition. Our government cannot even agree what homelessness is, so how the heck are we doing to end it.
This is a great segment on homelessness. THANK YOU
I just left homelessness for the second time in the AZ summer and it was har There is more than one kind of homeless. Homeless in different climates, with or without a job, car, pet, children, friends, family, disability, access to shelter, type of shelter, food, shoes, clothes, protection, medical help (mental and physical). Everyone is different and none of us have the same disadvantage, or privileges. But for all of us it is hell.
Lizzo: they apparently aren't aware of the really common act of smiling for a photo when you aren't actually having a good time.
There's also the common act of suing using false claims in hopes of a large settlement. Don't act like you know what happened just let the case play out.
@@tullalife9557I agree with both smiling for photos even when having a terrible time and that false claims are a real thing. I’m annoyed that people are cancelled these days by the media and the masses when they haven’t even had their day in court.
I don't know anything about that story but I do know that it's ridiculous (dare I say suspicious) to point at someone smiling in a photo as evidence for someone having a good time.
Stop training kids to smile like complete lunatics everytime someone holds a camera up. Problem solved
@@pyramidion5911This is a bit dramatic lol
Kinda insane how they are imposing and forcing sterilisation yet as a 25 year old I cannot get sterilised by choice. Wild
It’s so sad that young women like you are so mindfucked that you want this
@heather. perhaps claim you’re indigenous, doctors will help you out
These sterilizations are happening when there are other health/risk factors present. The term coerced is being brought up a lot, but a lot of that can simply be the Dr explaining the health risks of future pregnancies for each of these women and talking them into sterilization, like they did with my mother(who is not indigenous). Some women do in fact feel like they were duped when they were talked into the procedure. It'll make sense to them at the time, but later they start to question it as their emotions get the better of them, then they look back on it and think they were coerced or fooled, when truthfully the doctor simply gave good advice regarding a decision on health, and talked them into a procedure that was probably for the best. I have yet to see a case of sterilization where there wasn't a related health issue that would make the sterilization make sense, except for one, but her case was supposedly an accident, which again is quite possible, accidents do happen all the time. Heck, just recently an OBGYN decapitated a woman's baby. Anyway, a lot of this seems like miscommunication rather than nefarious doctors wanting to sterilize indigenous women. But hey, I could be wrong.
As for sterilization at 25...yeah you're going to have little luck doing that. Even as a guy, you're unlikely to be able to talk a doctor into a vasectomy in your 20s unless you already have kids.
I have a friend who is a doctor, and he will not perform either operation on somebody without kids unless it's for health reasons. As he explained to me, he used to perform the operation. But after a while, many women regretted it later on and decided they wanted kids. Many lashed out at him in anger. And yet others pleaded with him to reverse the operation, which he did, and when it didn't work, he had to watch their tears and watch their hearts break right in front of him. He couldn't deal with it. It was too much pain and the operation gave him too much anxiety. So he stopped performing it altogether. Of course he is a doctor in a smaller community and knows his patients on a more personal and intimate level than your average doctor. You're probably more likely to get a doctor to agree to that procedure if you go to a random doctor in a big city who doesn't have personable relationships and runs his/her hospital like a bank. Transactional only. But even then, your chances aren't great.
@@turinturambar347 No they didn't and no your friend didn't say that. If you look into actual studies (not news articles) its just under 6% of women who regret getting sterilization. But the main reason why those women give for regretting it isn't not having kids. It's the health problems and effects. Being sterilized makes your menstrual cycle more irregular and it messes with your hormones'.
there seriously needs to be a vacancy tax for landlords that leave their properties empty while thousands of people fall into homelessness.
Seriously dumb idea. 👍
@stanleyhape8427 why?
Squatting rights could help with that...
@@vancityplantie5752bro, why would I ever pay rent again if it’s free?
@joeymchavarti1956 no it's not.
Thank you for talking about the sterilization of indigenous woman, this has happened to native women before in history and many Canadian doctors are discriminatory/ racist towards indigenous peoples. Please talk about the missing & murdered indigenous women in the Brady Landfill near Winnipeg!
oh u mean the government leftist sanctioned sterilisation funded by fascist trudeas fascist corrupt government , shocker right that when u vote for evil u get evil? maybe u shud rethink ur life
I hope he does a video about it.
@@Valerianroots I'll surprised if he does, he didn't make a video earlier this year when government officials held trans kids hostage during a protest about trans rights despite me and others asking. This is my first time watching him since because it frustrated me so bad lmao
One of the worst parts about disabilities is getting into concerts and events. Some venues are "nice enough" to provide 100 or so accommodations seats out of some hundred thousand or more seats.
So glad you’re using your platform to talk about us indigenous women❤ we are rarely talked about unfortunately
❤❤❤❤❤ so many stuff doesn’t get the news coverage that it should. This government makes me sick
The cia wants indigenous people to stop pro creating
The idea of this happening in Canada of all places... I expected better.
@@mage1439you have been grossly misinformed about what Canada really is. It's just colder America
@@mage1439 honestly it’s not surprising to me. Many north and South American countries abuse their indigenous women and Canada has been for a long time.
As someone who was raised in an oppressive cult and forced to take family pictures at each and every gathering, forcing a fake smile when you are absolutely miserable is not that hard.
I hope you’re safe now, I’m sorry that happened to you ❤
bro's worst hardship was having a loving family lmaoooooooooooo what a loser
Self preservation
Yeah, especially since they were saying that they felt pressured to "have fun". It feels like fake smiling is expected.
I understand that, it's just hard to tell what's genuine and what's not. The whole point of faking it is to not show that anything is wrong. And if you're good at it, the second you talk about how you really feel, people will think you're lying, there's just no end to it...
In Japan there is a system that IDs disabled people. They receive a card, which they can wear pinned to their coat or bag if they wish. This card can also just be shown when needed. The US could easily do this with the same rules. Even if it was voluntary, it could save a lot of time and stress for disabled people and businesses.
It could definitely work but people would find a way to get one they don't need to take advantage and then there would need to be further proof it's necessary. We already struggle to get disability benefits for people who can't work. I've known of people getting rejected 3 & 4 times when they have paperwork from doctors stating they are incapable of working and it still takes years and multiple trips to court. And even then people think you're scamming the system and try to get that taken away. As long as Americans think others getting help is going to take what they have they'll never leave people alone.
I saw a person showing Disabled ID card but Karen just scream it’s fake and can’t be disabled at all.
Let me get this strait a doctor intentionally sterilized a woman without her consent. And the only punishment he received was having his license dropped for six months?
5
Pretty damn clear what the government wants there. I am disgusted.
That’s the colonial justice system for you. It was never intended to penalize or prevent the horrors of imperialism
Incorrect, Andrew Katoska has not been practicing since the incident came to light. Though the board found no unprofessionalism in his statements made, they did find his decision to remove the other fallopian tube was unprofessional. The board found no evidence of racism and noted that there had never been another complaint against katoska and his colleagues regarded him as thoughtful and professional. In context, N.W.T has only had two incidences of misconduct in 12 years. So there is some misinformation here about this case which makes it seem intentional and endemic when really both are probably false claims.
@Rybot9000 you're really going hard on denying the horrors of colonialism huh bud.
I remember meeting and hearing the stories of Hispanic/Latina women that were forcibly sterilized in the L.A. area who were around my grandmothers age (and some who were younger) and thinking it was way to current for how horrific it was…the fact that it’s currently happening to indigenous women is fucking appalling
As a disabled person with a service dog, the flight and amusement park situation is 100x worse, and is extremely stressful. No matter how many times disabled people ask able bodied people to stop maliciously using our accommodations processes, able bodied people will never listen because they can’t STAND to wait in that long disney land line. Well…some of us actually can’t stand and you’re ruining it for us all.
I'm disabled and MAN it's hard enough getting help from the government with all the hoops they make you jump through. But now to TRAVEL I need documentation? Disgusting. I hope someone sues over this because it's absolutely going against the ADA.
As a woman with an invisible illness, it is shocking how many times I have people be rude to me when asking for accommodations. It's gotten to the point I will wear my braces & splints just so I don't have to argue to strangers that I am, in fact, disabled. That doesn't even begin to touch how much shame & embarrassment that comes from having to ask people to move in a crowded train, because I am too broken to stand on a moving vehicle at the age of 30.
I understand you completely. That’s such a hard thing for me too. Always having to defend myself and explain myself, because “I don’t seem disabled”. Also putting on braces and splits because I’m tired of explaining myself. At 26 and already had to many bad experiences with people disrespecting and not understanding you
Ironically, you somewhat have the fakers to blame, with the rest of the blame being somewhat on a badly regulated system.
If the system was properly made and regulated, fakers wouldn't be able to get by.
The rest is done by the lack of education and understanding that 'disabled' doesn't mean 'quadriplegic and unable to ever move', but simply that you need help because of the medical issues that you have, and that not getting help would cause you undue problems and distress that other passengers don't have top deal with.
Fight for better education about disabilities, fight for a better system to regulate WHO is deemed disabled, and fight for bigger discouragement and punishments for people trying to take advantage of the system, while it still being understanding that some of them might actually need it.
if u can walk without assistance then you dont need to get on the plane early...its that fvcking simple.
im a 100% disabled iraq war veteran who got hit by an IED. i cant move like i used to, thats for sure, but ill be damned if im gunna be wheeled through the airport just so i can board the plane first as if im special...
grow the fvck up and stop letting your "invisible illness" define who you are and what you can do.
you CAN stand on a moving train so stop pretending like you cant. im so sick of this woah is me bs the entire world projects now. people used to have pride in a way they didnt want "special treatment" cuz they have health/movement issues, now it seems like everyone and their obese momma want to be treated special and even post how "special" they are on social media so people can say how StRoNg they are...gtfoh!
ITS GROSS AF!!!
Get on the plane, train, whatever asap, find a spot, then continue on with your life...its that easy and you aint special just as i aint special cuz i got 13 pieces of shrapnel through my legs, hips, and back...
Honestly I'm regularly too scared to ask for accommodations because outwardly I'm a healthy 31 year old(or when I was in my mid 20s) Because it requires me to reveal that i have mental health issues and autism. I get treated better by most people who simply don't know. But sometimes in a work environment I need accommodations like when I needed my job to alter my schedule because the shift hours varied so much I couldn't get on a sleep schedule or take my medicine at regular times.
@@spiritbx1337 Honestly I'm of the other opinion. I don't think we need to necessarily crack down harder on the fakers. In an ideal world, you could. But we don't live in an ideal world, and trying to crack down on the fakers just means that more legitimately disabled people get caught in that, too. I'd rather 10% fakers get away with it and 100% disabled people get what they need than no fakers but only 90% of disabled people getting through.
If we had more supports for everyone, more healthcare funds and more kindness, maybe less people would feel the need to fake it.
I live in Quebec and we're hearing these stories of what atrocious things are done to First Nations more and more, and I'm glad their voice is finally starting to be heard louder. They have every right to be angry at our governments, and they're so often abused by our medical staff, it's infuriating. I'm glad there's a lawsuit, and I hope every medical professional guilty of such heinous crimes get their license revoked for good, plus victims getting compensated. But I also think it's critical that people who works in close proximity with BIPOC communities get educated on their culture, history, and needs. We all need to do so much better. Canada is NOT the nice, perfect country it's portrayed to be. Far from it.
Wow, the idea that a patient not verbally answering a question would be taken as a yes is crazy. Would love to hear how racism/sexism isn't involved in that.
Right? I work insurance sales, and I can't sign anyone up without a hard "yes." I can't accept a "sure," "okay" or anything else. It HAS to be a "yes."
Meanwhile, docs out there just doing sterilizations with a nod.
Not racism or sexism? Then why is it looking like it. Because unless it’s not non colored women saying this happening it just sure seems like there’s something along those lines.
@@marisolaquino719 you misread what the poster wrote. They used a double negative in the sentence which means that they believe racism/sexism has to be a factor.
How does anyone expect civilized society to continue with millions of fully employed people unable to afford a bed to sleep in at night
Being an Indigenous mother, they also try to force you to take birth control. Even when I mentioned multiple times that I did not want birth control because I didn't do well on it, they asked for every single prenatal visit until 2 months after birth. When I said no they gave me an annoyed gasp leaving me feeling guilty. They will even ask you every time they come in the room once you give birth. For the first five prenatal visits, they asked me if I wanted an abortion after I mentioned it was a wanted pregnancy each time. I have asked non-Indigenous mothers if this happens to them and they said no. Our health care system is not the kindest and most practitioners are very rude making you feel less than human.
Lizzo’s pictures are nothing. I can smile through being miserable and I’m not a professional performer. It’s their job to keep smiling no matter how bad it gets
Literally anyone in customer service can attest to what it is like being made to smile despite feeling the exact opposite just to keep your job.
I think its more the favt that the dancers know that and are using it against her.. come on man. Smooth brain
And they can just as easily lie about being uncomfortable out of spite and for revenge.
I mean, they also made it seem like the women in that incident were more straight up sex workers than cabaret performers which is a big difference. So either someone has the instances mixed up or someone is bending the truth. We’ll see what evidence is brought to the court.
Yeah anybody who worked a shitty corporate job where they plan "fun" events knows this. My kinda fun is being off the clock lol
The history of Puerto Rican women being one of the most mass sterilized for generations is such an undertold story that more people should know about
We need more forced sterilizations, not less.
Im tired of these people shitting out kids and then crying, "Oh, I cant pay for them! I need others to donate to me thru tax dollars to take care of my kids"
If you cant afford to have kids, then dont have kids. Work on yourself first. Im tired of paying for your kids just for them to grow up to be just as lazy as you, or worse, criminals.
and its good to get Americans to remember that they also do it.
It was done to all indigenous people in north America. Its really crazy how much has been done to all of our people.
@@Bigjag15 globally sadly
@@mayasej
Americans do know it. It is the main talking point for Anti-Planned Parenthood people.
As someone who used the disability system at Disney due to an invisible disability I did feel very judged by other guests. Some of the people I was with had an attitude that didn't help, but I was very aware of the look of it since my disability isn't something you can easily see.
The stares I got were crazy. Also, constant crossing in front of me and stopping in my way. At one point I also had to yell at people to let me out of a building because they kept walking in front of me in a doorway. I WISH I didn't need a wheelchair or scooter to get through a day at Disney
I'm from Quebec and I actually once wrote a paper about the sterilization of Indigenous women for a humanities class. I remember reading instances of women who were sterilized believing they were only getting contraception and not being sterilized and like you mentioned the language barrier sometimes plays a part which is really upsetting because you can't reverse the decisions that were made to these women.
edit: I'd like to clarify that saying language barrier is a little vague and there was likely abuse of power from doctors either not trying to understand these women or deceiving them by taking advantage of Indigenous women who don't speak wither English or French.
More like language abuse.
@@fast1nakus you're absolutely right and even if there was some misunderstandings due to language, it is the responsibility of the doctor to have informed consent from patients before performing irreversible procedures.
I am not surprised about the sterilization of indigenous women. They have been doing it for years in some communities, I’m just happy that it’s finally coming to light. Please do more stories on indigenous peoples in Canada cause there is ALOT of stuff that keeps getting swept under the rug. #MMIW #searchthelandfill
They offered me the chance for them to sterilize my ex, we weren't even married
Like the trans community doing so?
@@no.6808 it is funny that when things like this happens somehow the party affiliation isnt mentiond of the pp ldoing it , we all know its the leftist fascist government in canada who is doing this and all the left wil ldo is ignore it because it for their cause and theyre doing it becasue its progressive dont you know!!!
My mother purposely stayed in British Columbia during pregnancy with me because the Alberta hospitals would move pregnant indigenous women to the Royal university hospital in Saskatchewan
@@no.6808 Rent free
That debate was a joke. Just a bunch of children shouting over each other while the crowd cheers and boos. How can anyone take those people seriously.
WAIT! You’re telling me that people pretend to be happy to keep the job?!? Ive never heard of managers constantly asking people to smile while walking around the sales floor!
The... "they can hear your smile on the other side of the line." Is so grating sometimes.
lol, right?
I’m pretty sure many of us know the feeling of having to smile in a photo with your boss/work environment even if you weren’t happy being there.
So not being happy means suing your boss?
@@zwenkwiel816 well if she forced them to do things like they alleged in their lawsuit then yeah. Even if not, the whole “you gotta do what your boss says or fear repercussion” culture has to stop.
@@GMAceM I kind of disagree. And I'm fucking anti social. People just need the balls to say no. Like we do after work shit sometimes at my job. I only do it when I want to.
Also feel like the boss has some rights here. Like they're entertainers if partying is part of the job and the boss would rather hire people who like to party than so be it. Sometimes you're just not a good match. No reason to sue or force an employer to hire people they don't want to...
@zwenkwiel816 It's easier said than done. They have bills to pay, families to support. "Standing up" to an unhinged boss could get you fired and potentially ruin your chances of getting hired anywhere else.
Your second point is completely ridiculous. I like to party, sure, but I wouldn't feel comfortable attending a topless cabaret or being told to fondle a performer's breasts just because my boss wanted me to.
@@_archieee no it wouldn't and if it would than so be it. Like you people act like bosses just do this shit on their own but they don't. That's not how culture works we're all part of it so just man up and this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
I am disgusted that the dancers smiling or continuing with their jobs is used as evidence that they were not abused. I would hope we would never say to a person in an abusive relationship or who was abused as a child that it's not true because they didn't speak out at the time or try to leave or even were seen smiling in a photo around the time of the abuse. Absolutely horrendous argument.
As a child abuse survivor, that was my first thought. Smiling for a photo says nothing about the emotions behind the mask. They were just trying to maintain their boss’ brand.
I was in a horribly physical and psychologically abusive relationship and I smiled in every photo we had together. Makes me so sick to see people trying to use that as evidence against abuse.
An inherent problem with disability aid is that the disability itself can make it hard to jump through the hoops to get help. Consider ADHD. Those with severe ADHD are going to have a much harder time keeping up with psychiatric appointments & filling prescriptions than those with less severe symptoms, or misdiagnosis. This means when shortages on medications come around, those with the worst symptoms are going to be hit the hardest.
Yea there's sooo many people who need something more than a caseworker, they need an aid, with paperwork and to represent their best interest, and that barely exists most of the time. Not for a lot of the day to day or week to week issues that are so common when you have a mental illness, mental disability, or neurodivergent mind.
Yep, my favorite way to point this out to people is with glasses, I’d be disabled without them, I couldn’t go to school because I couldn’t see the board or drive anywhere without them but because we have a common cheap accommodation and assistive technology for it I’m perfectly normal. Well that’s a lie I still have ADHD but the the point is disabled people aren’t disabled when the world is built with them in mind, they wouldn’t have to go through crazy hoops if the world wasn’t trying to get rid of the disabled people in the first place.
As a fellow adhder I find it beyond frustrating and overwhelming. Yes, I'm a 31 year old, 220lb, relatively fit and quite physically capable man. I can deadlift 405lbs no sweat, and bike 60k with much sweat. I'm good with my hands. I'm a pretty good student when need be. But dammit I literally despise my brain. If an alien race came by with a wonder laser that could excise the adhd part of my brain I don't think I'd hesitate for a second. Fuck whatever part of myself I'd lose, I'd beg them to make my brain normal. I wish my brain would just fucking work, for one gawd damn day.
@@brawlybard7014 hey man, I think you might have some internalized ableism and maybe it would be a good idea to work through that. I know it helped me a lot and plenty of other disabled folks too. I’m not sure why you feel this way, but I do know feeling like that made me feel miserable and working though it helped a lot.
I have seen photos of people smiling and acting happy literally hours after being beaten by their partner - Putting on a smile for a photo doesn't mean you're actually happy, comfortable, feeling safe or anything similar.
The worst part about homelessness is that it would cost less in the long term to solve than to continue ignoring it. Between decreased energy room visits, police costs, and public sanitation costs it costs around thousands less per year to give someone a home. Unfortunate homelessness is a problem of cap¡tal¡sm and won’t be solved as long as that system continues. It exists as a threat to workers like you and me, an implicit “stay in line or this will be you”
Canadian here. I can honestly say, I haven't heard a single peep about this court case in Canadian news. Not even a mention of it. Which just goes to show the treatment indigenous community in Canada gets. There are entire communities of Indigenous people in Canada without running water & I can assure you it's not because they want it that way. The government has always & continues to treat them as 2nd class citizens & ensures the Canadian population doesn't hear or know anything about it. But in typical Canadian fashion, you can be damn sure the shooting in the California biker bar made front page headlines. Most Canadians won't care & will continue to pretend like we're the best country on earth & and look down at America & scoff and say the usual "I could never live there" or "what a backwards country" etc. while having no idea what actually goes on in their own country. It's exhausting.
Corporate news media are owned and run by wealthy neoliberal ghouls. Not really surprising.
I grew up in Yellowknife and I heard about this case and a few others it’s not talked about enough!
Hear, hear. Stop the lies. Stop the “niceness”. We’re guilty as fuck.
it's the exact same as the food deserts here and diabetes therein in reserves in America. We STILL hurt natives to this day and it is obscene...
@@TheGallantDrake We're America light. We just follow most of what they do. America has a massive influence globally. It is the global hegemonic super power.
I have a service dog and it has gotten SO much harder to travel with her, really since the pandemic. It's crazy the paperwork that the cruise my family is going on required for her, and we will definitely be bringing hard copies.
Bless you for watching the Debate because I find it hard to watch grown adults who are trying to run our country argue like toddlers.
I'm a Canadian, and just this past week I attended a rally for missing Indigenous women and children in Winnipeg. As a white man, I can't even begin to describe how moving it was to hear the stories of their missing family members. What's worse is that with the situation in Winnipeg, a lot of the missing people are assumed to have had their bodies dumped in a nearby landfill, but the local and federal government have refused to perform the search because it would not be worth the cost. To hear families talk about how they were told that their missing loved ones were not worth looking for was gut wrenching, and I truly hope our government starts to do better. We have completely failed an entire group of people whose stories deserve to be told.
Thank you for talking about the struggles of the disability community. It’s a perspective that rarely gets talked about, despite being the largest marginalized group.
Something worth mentioning when it comes to the homeless, I've lived in and around Belfast for nearly 20yrs and I had a short spell of being homeless. I was lucky and got a space in a hostel and was rehoused in less than a year. Before then I obviously knew homelessness was a thing but I had no idea just how many homeless ppl there actually were. It was after that time that I began to see just how many ppl there were on the streets. Noticed the lines and crowds at specific times trying to get a bunk at the shelters. A lot of homeless ppl are there due to mental health and speaking from experience, the sense of shame is overwhelming. These are ppl that don't want to be seen and these are ppl a lot of us never looked for or ignore as we're wandering around. Imo those you do notice in the average city are just the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks for talking about the disability accommodations story! My sister has been dealing with all of the hoops you have to jump through for disability accommodations at DisneyWorld and Universal right now. She's going on a trip to celebrate kicking cancer's butt for the 4th time and trying to get accommodations has been so frustrating for her. She got accommodations for DisneyWorld just fine, but Universal has been so terrible to her.
Just skip it. Theme parks arent even fun for a lot of able people. They are designed to suck up your money and spend all your time. Dont fall for it.
I'm glad your sister has triumphed over cancer time and time again❤
@@pyramidion5911 It is her number one bucket list item and she thought she might not make it through her battle with cancer this time. So the trip is very important to her. She can spend all of her money there if she likes, I'm just happy I'm not losing my sister.
@@cinditas87 Thank you ❤️ Me too!
I interned at a tenants rights organization this summer in LA. The government isn’t the solution and they haven’t been the solution. Grassroots organizations are the ones that actually listen and respond to the issues of the people. They’re just severely understaffed and underfunded. However from what I’ve seen they do more with less than the government. If this is an issue you’re passionate about or you yourself need help, please reach out to your local tenants rights organizations!
That requires people to actually put effort in, which generally speaking? Is the main reason this is an "issue" in the first place. People in general are not at all willing to put effort into anything these days.
Locally, I see people complaining about not being able to find a job or not being able to afford rent or whatnot... while simultaneously the place that my dad runs has been hiring for positions that pay more than you remotely need to live here that have next to no requirements for the past 6 years non-stop.
You expect people to actually take action to improve their lot in life? That's never going to happen. Ever. They'll just complain non-stop online instead, because they couldn't make it on RUclips/Twitch and don't want a real job.
Self-entitlement is the biggest issue plaguing the modern day. People just expect everything to be done for them, to be solved for them, while they just ignore jobs, ignore places for rent, ignore the ability to move somewhere that's not a major overpriced city, etc. etc.
I've legitimately given up on most of the population of this country at this point, because there's literally several hundred homeless people camping out about 3 blocks away from a place that has been short staffed for the past 6 years and not a single one of them has applied for a job there, yet they constantly complain that they can't find work and can't afford rent.
And the place literally pays on average lower middle class wages. Not even "poverty line". And would gladly hire literally anyone that applied.
What are the organizations in LA you are familiar with?
@@AtomicArtumasOh the place that your dad runs has been hiring? Congratulations man you just solved homelessness. But since the only evidence you have is anecdotal why don't I give mine. I was in a homeless shelter during the entire pandemic lockdown. I actually had a job monitoring the shelter I lived in. And every single person in the shelter had a job. But thank you for your useless fucking input on something you don't know shit about it.
@@AtomicArtumas You've definitely never tried to apply for a job. Also, most jobs require you to have an address so of course homeless people aren't going to get it. But even housed people have trouble getting jobs.
You capitalists keep claiming there's jobs everywhere, but why isn't anyone getting them after applying? Half the listings on indeed are fake and the other half? The company will just ignore you.
I only got my job because I harassed multiple recruiters until one finally said they had a job. I've had jobs ghost me, tell me that despite having job lists, they're only "hiring internally". Sometimes they'll email me with an interview offer, only to rescind the offer later. I'm college educated, fit all the requirements on every job I applied for and only 1 gave me the job after literally harassing them for it.
I couldn't even get retail jobs because, guess what, I'm "overqualified". So tell me big guy, what's your solution to that? Why don't you go out and try to find a job and see what's up. These companies are lying about needing workers. Probably so they can get some tax benefit.
Speaking of bureaucracy! Here’s a quick homeless story I’m STILL going through. When you’re homeless in NYC they give you a number called your “Cares ID”. This is your homeless person tracking number, so they can keep track of you in their system. When applying for income restricted apartments, your cares ID is essential, as it is tied to your time being homeless. You need to have been homeless for a certain amount of time to receive help, and your cares ID is how they track that. It’s supposed to be tied to your social security number (if you have one). Somehow I’ve wound up with 2 Cares IDs, and this has caused some of my paperwork to be rejected. One Id says I’ve been homeless for 2 years, and the other says I’ve only been homeless since May (which would disqualify me from getting certain services). It’s been quite the process having them combine those ID’s. This one step alone has taken several months. This doesn’t even include everything that was necessary to get to this point. The bureaucracy that the homeless need to jump through, just to have a normal life is fucking asinine
I live in Eugene, Oregon. There was a push by St. Vincent de Paul and local advocates to turn an empty lot into a large, affordable housing complex; however, the city sold the land to developer who turned it into a luxury hotel. This is a governmental issue where city officials are being bought off my the rich. Then you have the upper middle class who don't want low income housing in their neighborhoods, while in places like Lake Oswego, Oregon (actually nicknamed "Lake No Negro" due to the city's long history of inherent racism) using their housing associations to legally discriminate against the poor and non-whites. HUD has said that rent shouldn't be more than a quarter of your monthly income, which would be about $600 a month here in Oregon; however, rent is often about $1200. The government needs to step up and start looking after the people and not their own pocket books.
23:25 I feel like every veteran that I had to deal with the VA for disability can relate mad hard to the government being bad at the basic stuff it’s supposed to do. Honestly most active duty people can probably agree.
Wow Matpat is still hip with the kids.
Good for him, he has kept the boat afloat and steady for longer than even he thought
I'm a Canadian, and generally I like to think of that fact in a positive light, be proud of where I'm from and the best of us.
But that's not at the expense of pretending like utterly reprehensible treatment towards indigenous people, in particular women, is somehow a distant memory that Canada has healed and moved on from.
It hasn't. The damage is still festering, we're still doing it, and it's still a national embarrassment that every Canadian should seethe with contempt towards those that permitted or perpetrated these crimes on our fellow countrymen.
Because they are, legally, Canadian citizens. Indigenous people themselves may have some *extremely valid* issues with me saying this but I'm asking for some leeway because I want Canadians to take care of Canadians.
Especially ones that our government, and the governmental heritage it has, have completely screwed over at almost every goddamn point in history.
We negotiated with indigenous nations until they didn't accede to our government's demands so we stole their homeland from them. Then we have the historical audacity to justify things because the next nation signed away their rights after we showed up to that negotiation covered in the blood of their peers.
They took what they could get out of fear of being murdered. That's what indigenous people mean when they say, "They took our land."
To say nothing of the systemic abuse and overtly deliberate cultural genocide that was perpetuated on them for, what? Decades? Given that it's still going on we're hitting a *century* of abuse.
And no, we haven't made it right. Not even close. Indigenous people, *especially indigenous women*, are still putting up with white people doing this insane shit to them while arguing that their goals justify it to this @#&ing day!
Thank you for talking about the indigenous Sterilization problem that's been happening here in Canada. I was disgusted with the numbers that RUH alone had done the year my 2nd daughter had been born.
I've noticed that for some disabilities, the disability in question makes jumping through hoops to get help for the very same disability. Raising the bar tends to mean those who are solely there to exploit the system do still, and those with genuine issues have to actively play up their issues if they want a chance to get the help they actually need.
Exactly. And then if you play it up too much they think you're faking anyway.
We've had to file for bankruptcy just to TRY and keep out house... My husband served 10 years in the Coast Guard and we're about to lose everything...
The homelessness issues really scares the heck out of me. Having a roof over one's head should not be a privilege for the rich.
But we want to add upwards of 100k illegal immigrants to this mix right?
@@venomsupeSomeone born on different soil than you still deserves to be treated like a human. Why is that so hard to comprehend
@@lovelylesbian5135it is not your human right to come into another country that is not your own 😂
@@elperronimo if they are at risk of losing their human rights by staying where they're fleeing *from,* then yes, coming into another country that is "not their own" is a human right.
(also, braindead American talking about "coming into another country that is not their own" 😂)
@@venomsupelol, illegal immigrants are not raising housing prices dude XD
Greenlandic Inuit were also forcibly sterilized in the 60s-70s 💔 Around half the women and girls of "childbearing age" in the whole country were forced or coerced to get IUDs. Girls as young as 13!
And as many women know, getting IUDs inserted can be extremely painful and traumatic even as a willing adult, I can't imagine what it was like for those girls. These IUDs weren't even like the ones we have today, the ones inserted weren't meant for women who hadn't given birth yet, cause it was quite large. One woman said it felt like the state had taken her virginity. Some women didn't even know it was inserted until much later, since it was done after just having given birth or having abortion
All my love and empathy to our sisters in Canada, we feel with you 💔
As someone who has been doing a lot of research over the years to learn more about my families history, it is absolutely true there are many indigenous women who are not only forcibly sterilized they also more likely to have their baby removed forcibly even with no verified reason. It happens so often even today it's horrible. I'm glad to see this issue is actually coming to light and people are being heard. 🧡
I’m disabled and the amount of hoops I’ve had to go through sometimes to get my needed help is insane.
This is really a people issue. If it is easy, too many people abuse it. It sucks for you that they don't have any respect. ❤
@@garrettwhite3922 No, it's a priorities issue. People care more about stopping people from abusing the system than they do about helping actual disabled people.
About the AI. The issue isn't about it existing and being used, but about it being trained on copyrighted material without copyright owners permission, petentially replacing the copyright owner. That's the issue. There need to be boundries set. For example, companies should not be allowed to use generative AI to do concept art, it should only be used to make refference images for concept artist to go off of, like they are now with other images pulled from the internet. Appart from the reference image/text, generative AI must not be used.
Something's gotta change with housing in general cause it's ridiculous. Couple years back I went back to Cali for a friend's wedding and the drive from San Jose to Sacramento there were so many homeless along the highways. Not unlike how i remember it, but as it'd been a few years at that point it was shocking to see it again and see its still that bad if not worse. Needs to be some sort of capping on rent or buy costs. I'd suggest a limit on ownership too, but people will find a way to skirt around that too....
We might have to start getting fingerprints otherwise the deed cannot be made official and ownership denied. Corporations would be hard pressed finding an ink pad big enough to help get the front door handle on paper
A photo of you smiling doesn’t mean everything is kosher. There were plenty of photos of me with my ex taken right after he had SA’d me, physically assaulted me, or done a number of other things. Happy looking photos don’t mean anything. I don’t know what the truth is in this situation, but the photo argument makes my blood boil.
Honestly if smiling photos is all you have as proof or your main evidence as proof as a magazine and a celebrity’s lawyer then they probably are grasping for straws because they know they are screwed otherwise.
Either way Lizzo and her legal team are gonna drag the lawsuits out as long as possible to keep the plaintiffs from making anything off of it or causing them to drop it if they can’t pay their lawyers
These women weren't forced to be there and there was no gun holding them hostage. These were adult women who DECIDED to stay and participate. Even in their interviews they said no one explicitly told them anything they just "felt" a way.
@@enfpchick You have never been to a party for work before. They say those things aren’t mandatory but if you don’t have a decent reason not to go then you’ll be critiqued for not being a team player in your next review and likely not be getting as much of a raise as you deserve and would be one of the first to be let go
On the homeless surge, as a teen who spent 2.5 years on the streets I can confirm the cascading effect being homeless is,because it becomes more difficult to stop being homeless if you lack family or friends, the longer you go the harder it is to get out.
I'm disabled and when I fly it's the most dehumanizing experience bc I'm fairly young (37) and my disability isn't visible to the naked eye, people think I'm just being lazy. It can really be awful.
Yep. I’m 45 but look 30, and I have a heart defect that prevents me from walking more than 50 feet, so I use a wheelchair at the airport, and they have me skip all the lines. I hate it, but that’s the wheelchair route, so I just keep my head down and stare at the floor the whole time. I hate it so much.
@Fivemonthslater1 same, I'm in a wheelchair but they've been so rude to me so many times. Like I want it this way for myself?!!
I'm from the town where the sterilizations took place and I'm horrified and shocked. Unsurprised but disgusted.
i dont understand how hard it is to understand that people put on a smile when they hate their job/boss
I work on history and social studies textbooks in Canada. Forced sterilization, the Sixties and Millenial Scoop, Birth Alerts, MMIWG2S, and Residential/Day Schools are some things we're trying to make sure kids know about. It's a hard fact to stomach, but it's the truth. We like to pretend we're accepting and diverse, but we have a lot of skeletons in the closet that need to be taught. We pretend its in our past but this crap still happens.
If you need a good book about some of the issues that First Nations deal with in Canada, read Truth Telling. It's heavy.
I have a psychiatric service dog because of my severe PTSD among other things, and these ESA pets have caused many people to try and tell me my service dog "doesn't count" and I have to go through a lot of hoops for simple things. I wish people across the board were better educated
The only time I've had to kick out animals is when they're biting and growling at other people. I honestly don't care what you bring in as long as it is safe. And most stores aren't even allowed to ask you, anyway.
@@OGimouse1 usually they try to kick her out without asking or any behavior because they want to stop it before it starts or something. She's also not the typical golden retriever people think of, so that doesn't help. Non reactive honestly don't bother me as much, but the reactive ones with uneducated owners who clicked an ad to certify their pet really make me mad
Racism is alive and true in Canada and unfortunately our indigenous people get a large portion of it.
Forced sterilzation was really commonplace in the south after slavery was outlawed in the US. Many doctors performed it on black women without consent and in most cases didn't even tell them, even if they went in for basic things, as the doctors would often talk them into procedures that would let them sterialize the women.
This is sickening to see still happening, especially since it's likely just as racially motiviated.
It’s easy to forget that this kind of genocide has happened a lot and racism is still going strong
Still happening. The left tells these women that babies will ruin their lives and promotes abortion and sterilization as life saving procedures 🤮
White people have been doing this to people of color for hundreds of years. It's pitiful, pathetic, and disgusting.
The problem with requiring "Certification" that any animal is trained to be a service animal is that here *isn't* single federal service that trains these animals, they all come from hundreds of local trainers which means that 1) not every legitimate trainer will be recognized by every organization asking for the certifications and 2) any scammer can just as easily get fake certification for their untrained animal and pass it off as legit. requiring certification does nothing to stop the issue of people passing untrained animals as trained and only serves to hurt those who actually need the animals.
The only real solution is to start regulation of it.
Change needs to happen as it's only hurting the people who actually need it .
@@stanleyhape8427 Regulation at such a scale requires a lot of money, which means it needs to be subsidized by the government. Try and convince congress to spend *more* money on social services, I don't think it's gonna work.
@@KomoliRihyoh So many people propose regulation without put any thought into what it actually means.
In that case you standardize certifications over a period of time. You can't just say it's hard and therefore do nothing about it.
@@franciscoflamenco Who is "you"? do you mean the Gov or disabled folks?
Thank you for including the segment about travel as a person with a disability! I am blind and have a service dog. Fortunately for me, I do not travel more than once or twice a year, but the paperwork is a huge hassle! I feel like I could never plan a last minute trip for fear that the I wouldn't get everything squared away in time. I am attending a work conference in a few months. My employer is handling the travel arrangements, and I am concerned that with having a thrid paryt involved who isntis potentially not as familiar with the service dog paperwork, something might go awry and I could be separated from the group.
When I worked as a unit clerk in north eastern Alberta, a woman with children in care was having a baby. She had to have a c section, and during that time she was sterilized. I could not believe it-this was my family doctor! Disgusting.
As someone from NE Alberta, I’m truly traumatized hearing this as I never even knew this was a thing, absolutely heartbreaking.
As a parent of a child on the spectrum I'm actually disgusted. I recently took a 19hr drive to take my kids to Disney for the first time and was met with issues and push back at their Orlando location. We made the most of it but it make so much sense why we had to jump thru hoops just to secure one ride fourty minutes to and one hour and thirty before hand. If you have ever pretended to have a disorder or any mental delays just to beat people for the long lines, just know there are many children with these diagnosis who may only ever get one chance to go. And those are the ones who suffer. I had to sacrifice a lot to take my kids. There are parents who have sacrificed so much more. Please be better. Thanks for filling me in Phil...that one kinda hurt.
I don't know why anyone would take their disabled anyone to Florida--the State that doesn't believe in fetal abnormalities or that disability is a spectrum. The average Floridians during the pandemic were very open that death isn't the worst thing and that so long as you can breathe you should be able to work and pay taxes--and that anyone else was worth culling. I will absolutely never buy anything that in any way enriches Florida because of their attitudes toward who is considered worthy.
@@OGimouse1dude wtf
Getting diagnosed with major anxiety/depression, the “everyone has this” condition, it angers me people will use this against others who need it. Like Sensory overload is real, yeah being around people can stress one out but that can easily be taken care of individually. I worry for my friends who aren’t able to handle it because of their condition.
@@rachabonespittzDoes reality scare you?
@@Dryblack1 no, there’s a time and a place to say stuff like that
Yep. My rent at a low income apartment was being raised 50 bucks a year. That eventually made my shitbox apartment not worth it. Thankfully, I was able to afford a better apartment. And the cost was near the same because of the consistent increases.
I spoke to a woman who lived there on her retirement checks. She told me that the complex gives her an allowance and takes rent from her.
She paid 1800 for a single bedroom apt in a section 8 crap apt complex.
I paid 1600 for a 2 bedroom....
I wasn’t aware until I was truly independent not too long ago how many people ruin things for people like myself with disabilities because they think it’s okay to use a “loophole”.
We do our best to function in a society built for you, not us.
One of my disabilities is anxiety...& I do mean 1, there's multiple mental & 1 physical diagnoses...& having to do something like this would just put me into a huge tail spin. It's not right & I can't see how it's legal.
@@munkustrap2 I’m the same way. Anxiety is only one of many of my mental and physical disabilities and before I moved out on my own I didn’t know how terrible people can be. Wishing you luck 💜
The people taking advantage of the loopholes are scumbags, but for the corporations to make it difficult for everyone not realizing how damaging it is to truly disabled people is scummy in itself. They don’t actually care about disabled people. I’d rather scumbags taking loopholes to be alongside the disabled people (& hopefully getting charged criminally) than corporations making it difficult for disabled people to get the necessary accommodations.
The people taking advantage of the loopholes are scumbags, but for the corporations to make it difficult for everyone not realizing how damaging it is to truly disabled people is scummy in itself. They don’t actually care about disabled people. I’d rather scumbags taking loopholes to be alongside the disabled people (& hopefully getting charged criminally) than corporations making it difficult for disabled people to get the necessary accommodations.
I hope the people who pretended to have a disability to cut lines or take their pet on a plane with them never have to experience what it is truly like to live with a disability. EVERYTHING is so hard for those with a disability, and it truly sucks we have to make it HARDER on people who have a disability because other people suck.
I will say as a person who is and was homeless in Anchorage Alaska, as well as being a local/national advocate for decriminalized homelessness I will say HUD has put in its most recent NOFO (Notice Of Funding Opportunity) that decriminalizing homelessness is a priority. There are boards of young people (14-24) all around the country working hard to speak the truth they’ve lived to our government and we have seen amazing change in the attitude in our republican Senator Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowsky has always in my experience been an advocate for housing the people who need it the most. We *are* making progress in some places it’s not all doom and gloom. We can do this as a humanity! ❤
As an Alaska Native, Tlingit, the forced sterilization of native women is nothing new and happened regularly until the 70s and still happens but isn't as shamefully up-front about it. The atrocities done to our peoples, all American Native peoples, is so ridiculously high it would blow people's minds. America and Canada, and the fact that we've only uncovered a small portion of the Canadian boarding schools where these kids were forced out of their homes, died, and never returned home leaving a huge hole in these family's lives.
It's not enough they steal your land, deny your religion, customs, and language, they want to steal your children again but now they steal them before they are born. This is how great their fear is.
Oh man. As an Alaskan, I’ve been around. I’ve heard some state troopers took a few villagers a few miles out of town and forced them to walk back without shoes or socks. It’s fucking ridiculous how we’re treated :/
The schools were no secret, the unmarked graves were.
I'm an adult with autism. Unfortunately I was diagnosed by a facility that no loner operates, and so it has been extremely difficult to obtain a record of my disability. Since I'm not confined to a wheelchair and don't "seem" autistic to most people, it's been expensive and time-consuming to get a diagnosis as an adult. For some families it would literally cost more to get the paperwork to prove a disability exists than to spend three days at a theme park. I know people abuse the disability honor system, but making people with disabilities jump through more hoops when they're in metaphorical (and literal) wheelchairs is not the answer.
I feel you. I was diagnosed with several things as a kid and stopped seeing that clinic at 18. They only keep the records 10 years, so now I can't get copies of them after losing mine. I cannot afford a new diagnosis. Providing paperwork for something I've had my entire life is currently impossible.
Everyones so desperate to be disabled these days. Literally anyone can be classified as having some kind of mental illness. Its all a game don't play into it.
Phil, you are a critical part of my daily dives and I cannot express enough how much I appreciate you covering these topics weekly
The saddest thing as a chronicly ill/disable person we feel bad for needing help.
People are homeless because of the rampage of landlords. Housing for profit is monstrous. People have been sold an idea that "real estate" is their best bet to grow their wealth, this is killing people. It's a huge problem, END HOUSE HOARDING.
Stop having so many kids then.
My mom works for a rental company. She says rich people who live out of town and even out of country buy properties here to rent out. Even rich local families (who also rent out properties) will buy their adult kids properties as gifts, so they can have that rent income as well. It's so ridiculous and frustrating.
@@humbleheathen1.0 that's quite the non sequitur 🤔
@@jessicam3233 definitely. Our landlord is a "mom and pop" millionaire who inherited an insurance company. Class stratification is a huge problem and housing is at the top of the list of problems.
That definitely is the problem…but I can’t blame anyone with the money to buy property and rent it out with the way the commodity and market is. If I had the money…
Game Theory is probably my favourite gaming Channel because it explored questions I had always had myself about those games I played.
I'll never forget discovering that Channel back in 2014 and being absolutely HOOKED with all the Mario and Zelda theories.
I like brainy Channels.
I really hope the homeless topic gets some headway soon.. I'm one bad day for my landlord away from being on the streets. I'm scared. My partner got laid off from their job with no luck finding new employment so far.. Bills and rent have had to go unpaid in order to just keep ourselves alive and for transportation (cause we lost our car in an accident a few years ago). We need more funding into programs that ACTUALLY HELP. Preventative and beyond. Normal every day working such as myself are in real fucking danger... You'd think we would qualify for some sort of crisis voucher etc or something right? No. Neither my partner nor I are a minority, classified as disabled or have any children. The country doesn't give a shit if we become homeless. It feels so hopeless. Can't catch a break.