A father complains about a structure that welcomes too many children in wheelchairs: a disabled person answers him
It is not a good sight for my children to see people suffering in a wheelchair from morning to night
The comment is offensive, discriminating and, as most of the time in these cases, anonymous. L "wrote a father on TripAdvisor, claiming compensation because" a myriad of disabled children "were present in the holiday village he went to.
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The father's accusation remained trapped in the anonymity of the Internet until a few days ago, when he attracted the attention of Jacopo Melio. For those who do not know him, Jacopo is a young disabled activist, who is fighting for a life of even if on two wheels.
Jacopo made the comment go viral, answering him with a long letter entitled "I'm going there on vacation" which begins like this:
Dear pine nut head ...
No, I have nothing against pine nuts nor against "pine nut heads". [...] But I could have started this letter differently. [...] So here, I believe that "pinole head" can be a fair compromise between maintaining intellectual superiority by showing respect and education, and teasing you a bit ".
Jacopo's sarcasm destroys, sentence after sentence, the "petty ignorance of that anonymous commentator. And he does it delicately, with all the subjunctives in the right place, without caps locks or groups of exclamation points. Jacopo leads us to reflect on the term" disabled ".
Disabled people are those who are unable to empathize by putting themselves in the shoes of others, to mix hungry with other existences, to adopt new points of view out of pure and simple curiosity.
The hashtag #testaapinolo is conquering social networks. Melio would like to use it to make a series of T-shirts with the aim of financing his association I'd like to take the train, created to allow disabled people to travel comfortably on means of transport.
