School Photographer excludes disabled kid

Overblown PC BS.

This is supposed to be a TOLERANT society, not a society of denial of individual differences. The first step to tolerance is acknowledgement of differences, not a thoughtless chant "we're all the same and equal". Every staircase the kid encounters will remind him of being different, because no matter how you slice it, there's a difference in ability to use stairs between him and others. And the assumption that he's not strong enough mentally to overcome that conflict is disgusting and tells a lot about society itself. We've got a long way to go.

When I was in fourth grade, I got sick one day and couldn't make it to school when we had our class picture taken. The next day, I asked the photog if he can take our class picture again and he just told me to eff off. He had a Canon too, that's why I chose Nikon from there on.

Life touch did my kids school one year then they got replaced....terrible photos...

Mark0159 wrote in post #16083096
if it's OK to make this kid feel like he can't be apart of society by treating him different. removing his dignitary as a human and we all lose something.

So, you're saying that he had a dignitary assigned to him, who was to fill in that empty space between him and his classmates and this dignitary's removal caused this whole kerfuffle? I see your point!!

I think some people are reading WAY too much into this. Was this unfortunate? Absolutely. Is this a vicious act to "remove his human dignity" (are you effing serious??)...of course not.

The only thing I've lost is a little bit of faith in humanity...when we turn a molehill of what is most likely a mistake by someone untrained and inexperienced into a massive mountain that questions human dignity, we all lose.

This is the equivalent of calling racism every time the lunch order of a person of minority is screwed up. Sometimes a mistake is a mistake, and making more of it is the real evil, not the mistake itself.

Genocide, tyranny, starvation, disease, war.

Let's save our moral outrage for more important things. Don't like the photos? Don't buy em.
YMMV

DocFrankenstein wrote in post #16095146
Overblown PC BS.

This is supposed to be a TOLERANT society, not a society of denial of individual differences. The first step to tolerance is acknowledgement of differences, not a thoughtless chant "we're all the same and equal". Every staircase the kid encounters will remind him of being different, because no matter how you slice it, there's a difference in ability to use stairs between him and others. And the assumption that he's not strong enough mentally to overcome that conflict is disgusting and tells a lot about society itself. We've got a long way to go.

Well said. I agree 100%.

Looking at the image, I really wonder, for what are some Photographers paid.
(Those who get paid for their work.)

In those situations I fell happy, that I never accepted any money for any of my pictures. I may not be a pro, but I could have done much more better then this guy with this picture.

DocFrankenstein wrote in post #16095146
Overblown PC BS.

This is supposed to be a TOLERANT society, not a society of denial of individual differences. The first step to tolerance is acknowledgement of differences, not a thoughtless chant "we're all the same and equal". Every staircase the kid encounters will remind him of being different, because no matter how you slice it, there's a difference in ability to use stairs between him and others. And the assumption that he's not strong enough mentally to overcome that conflict is disgusting and tells a lot about society itself. We've got a long way to go.

^This right here.

People are making too much of cheap photography.

good idea. makes it easier to crop out the kid later on in PP

I'll see myself out.

This reminds of simpsons s21e15

Nelson encounters a disabled kid:
- You're blind! Anyone messes with this kid, I will destroy them.
- It's ok, noone's messing with me.
- You're not a freak, and I won't let you think that about yourself.
- I don't think I'm a freak
- So brave!

(c) Simpsons

This is dumb. The kid is 7. There is no way he can rationalize "oh he put me over here it must be because he doesnt like me because I'm disabled and he intentionally wants to discriminate me".

Further it was probably an honest mistake and the photographer had no intention to cause any sort of distress. The bleachers also look like it makes it hard to move him in. We all do stuff, from time to time, that we'd do differently looking back. Doesnt mean he's a bad guy or intentionally was trying to ruin a 7 year old's life.

It's the kids parents and people who get in an uproar who tell this kid that he's different and make him think people are out to get him or hurt him intentionally, when in fact, they are not.

Mark0159 wrote in post #16083096
if it's OK to make this kid feel like he can't be apart of society by treating him different. removing his dignitary as a human and we all lose something.

The kid is going to have a hard life. I have a feeling this isn't even going to be a blip on his radar unless people in his life refuse to let it die.