Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness? | The Free Press

Other patients burst into tears after regaining their sight. Some are even presented briefcases filled with $10,000. Donaldson gives one young man a brand-new Tesla because after a lifetime of blindness, he can finally learn how to drive. 

At the end of the video, the screen turns black and white text appears, stating: I wonder if we ll get 1,000 more views from the people we cured LOL.

The video now has 161 million views and more than 400,000 comments. But while some on the internet hail MrBeast as a saint, others slam his video as disparaging of those with disabilities, or in the preferred parlance, ableist.  

At a fundamental level, MrBeast s video is inspiration porn, meant to portray abled people as the selfless heroes waging war against the diabolical villain known as disability, declares a TechCrunch article titled MrBeast s blindness video puts systemic ableism on display. The TechCrunch post on Twitter (now X) linking to its article now has 9.4 million views, albeit with an added community note stating that the article is a misrepresentation of the video. Another X post calling the video demonic drew over 28 million views and 83,000 likes. 

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Francesca Block.

MrBeast seems to have hit on a perfect internet play. Good for him. It’s better than selling child porn.

As to “ableism” — c’mon man. The vast majority of people would prefer to see rather than be blind. If not, well, bless their hearts, but don’t complain about people whose mileage varies.