Genre: Any
Lyric:
Cognitive discrimination it’s just so keen;
2009 by citation, 15 years since we’ve seen
Legal by decree, bow to rights of business, too;
Business gets them rights, but not me and you.
Why “judgement of the business”? Fed’s jobs database for this exists;
Why “judgement of the business”? They’ll only say it “makes no sense.” (cents)
The ADA and EEOC proudly proclaim,
No filtering disabled humans again.
But ‘Right to Judgement’ is their shame
Fearing to break, they always bend
All along, all along, all along, all along, the disabled, we have known
No one cares about us, under closest rug we’re thrown
A cognitive assessment put all thumbs to screw;
A filter for conformity, a maximum each hour due.
A sieve of divergence, deviation from preferred ‘norm’.
Better to shape a future in which function must serve the form.
They say I am ignorant, seeing only my own perspective.
They fail to see the future, in which they also are rejected.
Long have I attempted to march to the NT drum
Now, as I understand it, I’m “generational pond scum”
Now by allostatic load culturally and societally loathed
Yet in spotlight called hypocrisy, you stand, fully clothed
The doctors say to me, ‘unmask, you kill yourself to hide it’
As if you won’t do the same when I step out from behind it
You’ve no idea how mad I am nor how proud I have not cursed
For I know soon as I do, you’ll justify how to treat me worse
This bias and discrimination, clearly and without shame;
This quiet publication, and of course no whiff of blame;
This is what I mean by insufficient against discrimination;
You allow business to continue hiding their own causation
Cognitive assessment for work is so very biased and wrong
Filtering out diversity is not the way to keep us strong
May this song a marker be, in a world resistant to change
May we one day realize that its our own future we estrange
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