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Old Aug 9, 2017, 3:26 pm
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It's 2017, and disabled people are still crawling onto planes...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/b...jima.html?_r=0

A Japanese airline has apologized to a disabled rights activist, who is partly paralyzed, after it tried to prevent him from boarding a flight at a remote airport, prompting him to crawl up a portable boarding staircase to reach the plane’s cabin.
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Old Aug 11, 2017, 9:27 pm
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Disgusting.
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Old Aug 29, 2017, 6:43 pm
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Suddenly makes Japan a lot less interesting place to visit, doesn't it? I'm utterly disgusted.
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