Mark Vargas, “Prejudgement”

Ballet of Tibet, Ysrael and Longmore Screening Stereotypes are three texts that I have read and watched. While reading these texts, one word that comes to mind is prejudgment. Many people with disabilities before birth or even being born are already judged by their capabilities and how far they would be able to succeed in their life. Those without disabilities have experienced some type of a prejudgment without any source of reasoning. Many people can take being judged very personally. Many people doubt others because they doubt themselves, which causes them to have a negative towards life. Other make judgments because they have seen others in the same predicament or even look the same way, therefore they feel as if they have an idea of what they can do. Some people judge others in certain situations because they have no knowledge of the situation. They need to put themselves in the other person’s shoes and just imagine if they were in their situation. These three-texts provide examples of cases of prejudgment.

Individuals have a prejudgment in their heads that those with disabilities are different from them. They look down upon them and think they are better smarter and more humane. In Longmore Screening Stereotypes, it says ‘further, the depiction of the disabled person as a monster and the criminal characterization both express to varying degrees the notion that disability involves the loss of an essential part of one’s humanity” People with disabilities are a diverse group – the visually, hearing, and speech disabled. People who have lost a limb, a person with restricted mobility. Even people with muscle illnesses such as muscular dystrophy cystic fibrosis or seizures. (Longmore, 65). All disabled people share one common thing and that is prejudgment and discrimination. People with a disability also lack the accessibility in the economy and educational opportunities.

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  1. Black today, tomorrow, ànd always black and prejugded.
    By essence of the racial construct of society, I am prejugded not by my merit or ability but by the color of my skin.

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