At a time when calls are increasingly being made to change the terminology from "people with disabilities" to "people with disabilities", to avoid any negative connotations, in the communications of well-known Albanian characters in the media - where responsibility the code of ethics is supposed to be twice as high - statements of an offensive and discriminatory nature against a particular category of people are observed, in this case persons with disabilities.
Lastly, in an interview in the "Bermuda" section of the Trinity show, Erik Lloshi was asked "if he keeps waxing now that he is married" as a way of saying "does he still care for himself as he was single"? . "Understanding something, I'm married, I'm not disabled," Eric replies, then laughing along with Romeo Veshaj.
At the end of August, while defending Justice Minister Etilda Gjonaj following a scandal over salt bills in luxury hotels, MP Myslym Murrizi told a citizen: "Quit crying when I see a girl commenting on my fb."
In November 2018, the Socialist Party MP, in a status against former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, addressed him with the term "autistic" as a way to offend him. Following the backlash from citizens and members of civil society, Hyseni replaced the term from autistic to "hard". At the time, the founder of Down Syndrome Albania, Emanuela Pepkola Zaimi, said that "politicians should not use the condition of children to offend".
Mayor Erion Veliaj, during a meeting with ring residents in November 2018, as a way of saying that police officer Ina Nuka - who was hit by a capsule and damaged toes - lost his life, said : "We are all men , do their eyes marry a man with a girl without fingers? ?
Likewise, in June two years ago, the mayor of Puka, in a video made public at the time, addressed a physician with the sentence "you are a brain invalid".
Albanian celebrities and everyone else have the right to speak. "You may disagree with what you are saying, but I will defend to death your right to say it," Voltaire once said. But the quote is not always valid and the examples above prove this. Much of the offensive statements against a certain category have been made in the media, where the Broadcasting Code clearly forbids it.
The Code adopted by the AMA clearly states that discrimination on the basis of sex, race or ethnic origin, nationality, age, creed, religion, disability or sexual orientation is prohibited.
All that is said is to care for and take responsibility for such statements, since the bone language is gone, but the bone breaks.
