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shelley
Nov 8, 2010

cash crab posted:

I got into an outstanding internet fight with this woman who insisted that this sort of packaging was essential for "accessibility reasons".

I've run into people making this argument before... about infomercials. (For that, the line is, "Those products are really designed for disabled people! Omg how dare you question the noble Slap Chop" or whatever.)

It's the weirdest loving thing, and I can't track it back to any actual facts at all. The closest I got was an unsourced tumblr post.

Thankfully it's not common, but every now and again I run across someone trying to one-up their opponent by claiming that "[product X] is intended for the disabled, you hateful bigot". And the people making that argument are rarely disabled themselves.

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shelley
Nov 8, 2010

PubicMice posted:

This keeps coming up, so I gotta ask, is this really that unusual? Here in Alaska, literally every grocery store has a liquor department, even the Walmarts.

I'm not exactly well-traveled, but I never saw a Walmart that could sell booze until a couple years ago. Grocery stores in the places I've lived could carry beer at most.

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