In Heist op den Berg abbiamo un primo consigliere comunale affetto da sindrome di Down.
Sono felice per lui ma sono anche preoccupato che forse i consigli politici in cui viene inflitta la nostra vita quotidiana dovrebbero avere delle limitazioni su chi può candidarsi per prendere decisioni lì.
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Collegamento VRT:
First municipal councilor with down syndrome
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Limieten op mentale capaciteit; waarmee ik niet wil zeggen dat mensen met Down niet hoger scoren dan het gemiddelde op een gemeenteraad.
In mijn ogen spreekt dit boekdelen. Indien iemand met een achtergestelde mentale capaciteit de meest bekwame en competente persoon is die men kan vinden om op de lijst te zetten en in de gemeenteraad op te nemen, zegt dit veel over enerzijds de job, en anderzijds de mening over de functie van mensen zonder achtergestelde mentale capaciteit….
Moet iemand met downsyndroom uitgesloten worden van zich verkiesbaar te stellen? Neen. Maaaaaaaar…. indien we in een situatie zitten dat iemand met downsyndroom verkozen wordt, dan is dit symptomatisch van grotere problemen in het democratische systeem.
In een democratie wordt helaas nog steeds gestemd op populariteit in plaats van op competentie…
I find it a difficult choice. On the one hand, having minimum requirements sounds like a good idea for a leader as they need to make well reasoned choices about complex topics. On the other, it’s not very democratic, and as soon as you introduce a requirement like that, you open the door to abuse and preventing certain groups’ situations being considered. If you say only have people with a higher-than-average IQ, you will obviously make politicians even more biased towards representing the issues of wealther, higher educated people.
And we haven’t even started talking about how high the variability on an IQ test is going to be. How are you going to implement this? How do you account for the variability inherent in such a test? How do you prevent people from doing the test until they pass?(you do get better at IQ tests as you do them more often). Before you know it, politicians spend half of their day ‘practicing’ the IQ tests…
Everybody should be able to get elected in a democracy, that’s just a basic rule of the game.
Apparently enough people found the guy with Down syndrome suitable to represent them in local politics. Says more about the voters than the councilor IMHO.
I wouldn’t vote for someone with Down syndrome, might be a very nice and friendly dude but I don’t think he would be suitable for the job. Voting is not a popularity contest IMHO. I vote for the person that I think is most suitable for the job, would best represent my interests and whose vision for the future aligns best with what I think. Seems logical to me. Whether that man/woman is a nice person or an absolute asshole is not really that important to me, if thy do their job well I don’t care.
I feel like a lot of people just vote for personality, not capabilities.
Everybody has the right to run, it’s as simple as that.
Looks at Spain, Mar Galcerán seems to be doing her job correctly.
And considering we had clearly drunk people in parliament giving speeches, someone with down syndrome focusing on subjects like g-sports like a way better fit.
In a perfect world, politics is about making the best decisions for your land/city/… and leaving those decisions in the hands of the most capable people (that we elected). I’m all for inclusion, but people with down syndrome don’t fit that profile.
Where’s option 4 “There should be limitations for greed”?
Think this can be easily contoured by introducing some certificate you need to obtain before being able to run. Like a civics exam. Shouldn’t be too hard, but like getting a driving license, there are some basics you should need to know before running. That would also stop a lot of others from running.
Ik zeg: iedereen moet zich kandidaat kunnen stellen. Mensen met een handicap moeten de ondersteuning daarbij krijgen die ze nodig hebben. In het geval van iemand met het syndroom van Down kan dat een persoonlijk assistent zijn die hem helpt de ingewikkelde materie te begrijpen. Of iets anders, geen idee wat nog allemaal mogelijk is. Als hij verkozen wordt is dat de keuze van het volk en die moet gerespecteerd worden.
Criminelen verkiezen doen we ook dus….
FYI: Down syndrome does not necessarily mean somebody with down syndrome is mentally impaired. It is however an incredibly common symptom with an incidence of 99%.