mzminola:“Handicap ramps are expensive, but inspiration is free.”Figgins: won’t pay for the accessib

mzminola:“Handicap ramps are expensive, but inspiration is free.”Figgins: won’t pay for the accessible bus to Sectionals, won’t install more ramps. But he will insist Sue open up her Cheerios to open auditions instead of the previous “invitation only” policy she had.This scene is about fifteen minutes or so in, if you want to hear that quote in context. Season 1, Episode 9.“Handicap ramps are expensive, but inspiration is free.”Actually making an environment accessible, let alone welcoming? See, that requires work, time, money, and taking a hard look at yourself and realizing when you’ve fucked up or hurt someone. Inspiration? Much easier, and it makes you feel better. It’s just…insufficient. It’s a theme repeated in several different variations and contexts this episode–with Kurt, with Puck and his pot brownies, with Will forcing the club into wheelchairs, with the reality of Becky.The politics of this episode are clever and biting and amazing.(And as always, it works because it’s not about the politics of a specific issue. The episode doesn’t take a firm moral stand. It’s not The One True Way To Think About Disability. It’s about how people interact, and what basic underlying dynamics and ideas guide our interactions. Inspiration is easy and insufficient. This is not complicated, it is how humans work, and it translates across all kinds of contexts. I’m shit at explaining this, but it’s an important difference, and it’s not expected, and it’s what makes episodes like this so good.) -- source link

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