{"id":33719,"date":"2011-02-25T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=33719"},"modified":"2011-09-28T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:25:38","slug":"odd-norwegian-psas-encouraging-hiring-blind-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/25\/odd-norwegian-psas-encouraging-hiring-blind-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Norwegian PSAs Encouraging Hiring Blind Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/14.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"122\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38067\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSquee sent in some rather odd commercials put together by the Norwegian Association of the Blind. The commercials encourage companies to hire blind individuals&#8230;by arguing that you can get away with doing things in front of, or to, blind workers because, you know, they won&#8217;t be able to tell anyway:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6ILI1IhgVro?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Sfl1AcuggZQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J2CnT4uETYk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The message is a little strange, I think &#8212; trying to provide more employment opportunities for a group that may suffer from job discrimination by reinforcing the idea that if if someone is blind, they are completely clueless about what&#8217;s going on around them and, thus, their non-blind coworkers can act in ways that would be totally inappropriate if done to\/around any other colleague.<\/p>\n<p>Does that seem like an effective strategy to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squee sent in some rather odd commercials put together by the Norwegian Association of the Blind. The commercials encourage companies to hire blind individuals&#8230;by arguing that you can get away with doing things in front of, or to, blind workers because, you know, they won&#8217;t be able to tell anyway: The message is a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,345,1791],"class_list":["post-33719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-disability","tag-nation-norway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39983,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33719\/revisions\/39983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}