• Drusas@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    That’s some ableist shit right there. The other representatives just hide their problems.

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      11 months ago

      Genuinely serious where you draw the line when it comes to the health of a candidate.

      Someone with three previous heart attacks? Someone with anxiety?

      I ask that last one as someone with anxiety and a trigger being stress. To me those are not ableist concerns. Though the previous commenter could have used a better phrase than “presidential material.”

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        11 months ago

        I’m responding as a hiring manager for a big tech company.

        I am not allowed, by law as well as very strict company policy, to ask any questions relating to the candidate’s health. I can’t know whether they’ve had four heart attacks, plan to get pregnant in the next six months, had a history of psychological issues, or anything like that. I think that most people would generally agree that’s a very good thing.

        There are certainly roles where physical performance is key to the job, and so they’re able to take that kind of thing into account.

        I guess what I’m saying is that, while your concern is of course valid, it feels different because we tend to see the president as someone with more of a job than, say, a senior software engineer. Okay, that’s fair in a very real sense. But I think that it’s different between the president and a prime minister, and that’s where it gets interesting. I think there’s an idealization of the role of president. And, bizarrely, that’s one reason Trump was so wrong but so beloved by so many.