Look at this page:
https://www.berlin.de/familie/informationen/inklusive-schule-in-berlin-106

This is a great example of how far we're still away from actual inclusion. 🤦‍♀️

It's about "inclusive" school in Berlin. At the top is a big image - an image that doesn't even have proper alt text, but the alt text only names the image source.

The picture shows three kids (maybe about 8 years old) in a classroom, all busy writing something.
The two kids in the back are a white girl and a white(?) boy. That boy is sitting on a chair that is too low for him respectively at a table that is too high, which already makes this image a shitty example for inclusion. Can someone please take care of this kid's needs?

The kid in the front is black and sits in a wheelchair. Because, right, the only way to represent disabled people that non-disabled people can think of is a wheelchair. 🤷‍♂️
Very obviously though, this is not the boy's own wheelchair (at least that's what I hope for him 😉), as it is not customized in any way, but just some very generic wheelchair model.

So I guess, the photographer was like "Hey kids, we need a picture that represents diversity, can one of you please sit in this wheelchair? Oh yeah, you over there, black AND in a wheelchair, that's perfect!!"

This page is so symptomatic of how people "mean well" but fuck it up completely. 🙄

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