You can’t be a good anything and be a landlord
A good parasite?
You can’t be a good anything and be a landlord
A good parasite?
Those lyrics hit far too close to home right now…
I am sooooo fucking sick and tired of people touting out that tired cliché to defend capitalists…
I think instead we should start saying “don’t let the manipulation by their benefactors stand in the way of the reality of the systems they maintain”.
I doubt anyone is expecting perfection at this point, I know I’m not (it being a literal impossibility and all), but them pretending to be “good” and you buying it, doesn’t actually make it any good at all (as I said - it’s just giving them the space to continue as they are for a fee that they will never pay, their trapped customers will).
Defending this bullshit as the good we should be happy to compromise for serves no one but the people running the oil companies (and the politicians they pay to ensure such legislation has no legs).
You are playing their game, and supporting their team, bathing in the placation of their greenwashing and letting them get away with it. That is what’s in the way of good.
So they can pay a relative pittance to keep chugging along uninterrupted, and pass the cost on to the consumer.
Yeah, that’ll fix things…
I know perfectly well what space I’m in, and if the NT encroaching on it didn’t realise (and they did, because they were making excuses for themselves from the get go) them coming from /all would only excuse the first comment, not the rest of the thread where they make it clear that they don’t care that they’re talking over ND’s in our own space.
And yeah, I thought it was a no-brainer that actively reading social media makes it harder to fall asleep while doing so, but these days I’m not so sure how common this “common sense” is.
And there it is.
The NT has ridden in on their white horse to teach all us NDs about their “common sense” that is clearly what we’re lacking…
What would we do without you, oh great neurotypical??? /S
Lmfao, that’s a lot of condescending words to say “no, I will absolutely NOT listen to the people whose space I’m encroaching on and try to learn about their experience and do better for their benefit (or simply walk away), I WILL continue to always centre myself, because that’s all I care about”.
I’ve been on the receiving end of righteous anger for giving neurotypical advice before
And yet the thought to, you know, just fucking not never seems to have crossed your mind…
The “experience I’m facing” that is causing me “anger” is you and your behaviour, no amount of twisting things to justify it to yourself changes that, the least you can do is take some accountability (lmfao, as if… This entire thread is absolutely textbook NT behaviour, including the framing me as “emotional” and yourself as “logical”, and you’ve already made it clear that you don’t give a shit about the impact of your own actions).
Sorry it came across the way it did. I’ll try to be more careful about it in the future, assuming I remember.
Fuck your non apology and your insistent on there being a next time for you to be “careful about it” - you don’t need to “be careful”, what you need is to have some respect for spaces that aren’t for you and the people they are for, and resist your desperate need to insert yourself and your unsolicited unhelpful and uninformed opinions absolutely everywhere.
I thought expressing a bit of solidarity
TIL solidarity means privileged people talking over the experiences of marginalise people in their own space 🙄
you’re always free to walk away.
Yeah, and die of starvation or exposure, which ever comes first…
Maybe take a look around at the reality most people face before giving such out of touch advice…
I’m autistic and I’m the same but for me it’s less about going a minute without stimulation, more about not wanting to be alone with my thoughts because they’re constant and horrible at best.
Without my tv and pc always on around me (and weed) I don’t think I could sleep at all (pc to scroll/read till my eyes get sleepy, and tv to give my brain external conversation to focus on rather than the one going on in my brain). Even then it’s a struggle, but I’m still 100% more likely to get some sleep with these things on, than I am without (I don’t consider crying for several hours in either frustration or deep despair until my eyes can’t stay open anymore a good enough alternative ¯\(ツ)/¯).
Not everything is about or for you, you don’t always have to chip in, and this is a perfect example of a time where you actually have nothing of much value to contribute to the conversation so should just taken a seat and listen (if you must. Again - some things simply aren’t for you and it’s ok to move on without piping up).
You are literally being the top person in the meme who doesn’t get it. We face several of you a day every single day of our lives.
I hope you take this opportunity to learn and do better in the future, instead of trying to justify, and continuing to centre yourself in conversations that aren’t for you.
Tories
oversawdeliberately caused ‘worst income growth for generations’ to line their own pockets
FTFY
It’s always nice to meet a fellow link collector lol
I’ll admit it might be a while since I’ve read some of these myself (or in the case of the book pdf - not fully yet) so they might not all be up to date, but the gist should still stand.
They’re basically fancy ways of saying “non white”.
Exactly
And yeah, it can get confusing and complicated when terms are a bit vague or euphemistic, which like you say, is intentional in probably most cases for both identities and countries examples (and others). But really it means we just have to put in a little more thought in to what we actually mean to say, and also be open to learn an adapt.
Happy to help, and yes, there is definitely a move away from the more general “catch-all” terms that seem to exist mostly to make life easier for those outside of the group in question, rather than those in it. It’s a good move.
Cool. I figured I’d just troll my bookmarks and paste anything related, but there was more than I realised lol. I did cut back, but this still feels like a bit much, sorry 😂
Language related:
https://fightingtalk.substack.com/p/disability-is-not-a-dirty-word
https://30daysofautism.blog/2023/03/21/lets-talk-about-language-is-disability-a-bad-word/
https://sailhelps.org/so-whats-wrong-with-the-word-handicapped/
https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/05/grammar-snobbery/
https://www.ncmh.info/2019/04/04/fallacy-functioning-labels/
https://graymattersmd.com/functioning-labels-autism/
https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/alternatives-to-oppressive-language/
https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/no-joking-matter-words-and-disability
Capitalism/“productivity” related:
https://dailyfreepress.com/2020/11/19/mind-your-business-ableism-is-rooted-in-capitalism/
https://atmos.earth/productivity-culture-ableism-ecofeminism-capitalism-the-slow-grind/
https://thestrand.ca/capitalism-ableism-and-the-glamorization-of-productivity/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/pers-s24.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1039676445/laziness-does-not-exist-devon-price
Independence related:
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/changing-the-framework-disability-justice/
Covid related:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/09/xdvx-m09.html?pk_kwd=wsws
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/its-all-out-war-on-the-vulnerable?utm_source=publication-search
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/mass-disabling-event-denial?utm_source=publication-search
Internalized ableism:
https://www.neurodiverging.com/what-is-internalized-ableism-neurodivergent-people-need-to-know/
https://www.autisticparentsuk.org/post/overcoming-internalised-ableism
Other/general:
https://www.fullspectrumchildcare.com/blog/to-be-a-radical-crip-and-the-power-in-identifying-as-one
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/forced-intimacy-an-ableist-norm/
https://privateplacespublicspacesblog.wordpress.com/about-the-project/
https://blueannoyed.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/welcome-to-the-crip-warehouse/
https://www.womenspress.com/what-can-feminists-make-of-the-eugenicist-history-of-abortion/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/images/other-images/9781452963495_intro.pdf
https://disability-memorial.org/
https://themighty.com/topic/disability/tweet-thread-straw-bans-disability/
https://medium.com/@thorafelicitybell/our-environmentalism-has-to-be-intersectional-4cf824ab2aa4
https://www.eater.com/2018/7/19/17586742/plastic-straw-ban-disabilities
https://www.bvanudgeconsulting.com/bias-of-the-week/just-world-hypothesis/
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Sure thing, I’m always happy to share useful info!
Also, was the “hell yes” to more links or just in general? You’re good either way, don’t worry… 😂
I’m seriously not debating this with someone trying so hard to justify continuing to use intelligence based insults that they literally compare disabled people to Nazis (who are not, and never have been a marginalised and oppressed group like the disabled people they literally mass murdered. Fuck you) to try and make their logic work.
If you are actually willing and able to set your defensiveness and biases aside, feel free to read through the links I left in reply Vodulas, or continue to do your own research in to what disabled people have to say about the matter, not those who aren’t directly impacted.
Either way, I am here to reassure a comrade, not philosophise with ableds about ableism, you either listen to disabled people and do your best to be an ally, or you don’t, that’s your choice.
Those are some awesome resources, yoinking those for sure.
The more the merrier!
Ableism and fatmisia are some the last bastions of acceptable and casual bigotry
Yup, the other day I had to really quickly back out of some comments sections on articles related to fast food because the comments were so full of fat shaming it made me rage. People don’t think twice about either.
Usually when you bring up the eugenics origin, at least for people around me, folks tend to take a step back.
In my experience they get even more defensive, because eugenics is something they recognise as bad, but not their casual ableism, or the existence of a relationship between the two… But then these are randoms on the internet I’m talking about, not people actually close to me, they’d probably be much more reasonable if it ever came to it lol
You have inspired an infodump, some links specifically go in to the eugenics connection, others are a bit more broad (I also have a bunch about the relationship between capitalism, “productivity”, and ableism, and some on the myth of independence, which I wasn’t sure were closely related enough, but am more than happy to share as well!) if you want more articles to yoink:
https://www.drakemusic.org/blog/nim-ralph/understanding-disability/
https://www.yorku.ca/edu/unleading/ableism/ (the entire project is worth a look)
https://www.northwestern.edu/onebook/the-reluctant-mr-darwin/essays/darwin-morality.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/may/09/evolutionary-theory-gone-wrong-darwin
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605065733/https://ollibean.com/intelligence-is-an-ableist-concept/
https://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/ableist-word-profile-intelligence/ (the entire blog is worth a look)
https://gracelapointe.medium.com/some-thoughts-on-online-ableism-424e26f1bb2a
https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/symptoms-executive-dysfunction/
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