Tim Shriver talks with Bill Maher about the following topics:
- people with disabilities are the largest population discriminated against in the world (300 million people globally)
- 95% of disabled children outside of the US do not go to school or are not allowed to go to school
- children with disabilities are 3x more likely to bullied and average length is over 1 year
- change the public behavior by civil rights movement of the heart - work together & play together
- special olympics sponsors 40,000 events a year to bring people together
- address the blind spot when people look the other way when change is needed
- Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder - there's a line between laugher and causing pain
- people are fighting and trying to fit in and not to be excluded; picking on them crosses the line into mean
- don't be a cop on poor public behavior be a teacher for the public
- people with disabilities tell us that the R-word word causes us enormous suffering
- language is living and we can grow and change
- Rosa's law- what you call people effects how you treat them
Take a minute to watch this inspiring clip with the CEO of Special Olympics, Tim Shriver.
