Comment by kube-system
1 day ago
Thank you ADA. One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.
1 day ago
Thank you ADA. One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.
> One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.
It was signed into law in on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. I hope you get to see a progressive man like George H.W. Bush in the White House again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...
Honestly, yes. Something like this today would be called “woke” or “socialist”.
> One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US.
The ADA is not a good thing. It's best known recently for forcing UC Berkeley to take down the lectures they used to provide over the internet for free. But it's been having very negative effects since it was enacted.