# The changing face of advocacy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-changing-face-of-advocacy/587609>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 2, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-changing-face-of-advocacy/587609 "2011-07-02T06:55:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-changing-face-of-advocacy/587609/1 "2011-07-02T06:55:36Z")

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[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disabilitynow.org.uk%2Fhave-your-say%2Fandy-rickell%2Fdisability-organisations-can-be-disablist-as-well&ei=kr0OTpq8IoGltwfjk9nfDQ&usg=AFQjCNFSaDsvWCN0yD5Z2VdxnNJNvaAeUw](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disabilitynow.org.uk%2Fhave-your-say%2Fandy-rickell%2Fdisability-organisations-can-be-disablist-as-well&ei=kr0OTpq8IoGltwfjk9nfDQ&usg=AFQjCNFSaDsvWCN0yD5Z2VdxnNJNvaAeUw)

I am pasting this because I think this ties in well to many of the points I have been trying to make. Even institutions which are in place “to advocate” for the disabled can help to perpetuate the mindsets, attitudes and belief-systems which they are supposedly there to eradicate.