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A lot of Ableds are getting overly excited that his treatment of disabled vets is the thing that will finally “get him.”
But as black disabled people can tell you, despite threatening healthcare, social security and ableism, more white disabled people
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A lot of Ableds are getting overly excited that his treatment of disabled vets is the thing that will finally “get him.”
But as black disabled people can tell you, despite threatening healthcare, social security and ableism, more white disabled people
Are invested in white supremacy than you think. This exit polling shows that despite all of that, half of disabled people still voted for trump. https://therespectabilityreport.org/2016/12/14/polling-shows-people-with-disabilities-split-vote-between-trump-and-clinton/
And.. don’t chalk this up to a “lack of intelligence among community members” which is ableist.
And.. don’t chalk this up to a “lack of intelligence among community members” which is ableist.
But look more towards this moment at this year’s RNC: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/madison-cawthorn-rnc-stands-paralyzed.amp
Madison Cawth*rne politicized his disability for a party that has: threatened healthcare, social security, programs for disabled people and has forced abortions on disabled people.
Madison Cawth*rne politicized his disability for a party that has: threatened healthcare, social security, programs for disabled people and has forced abortions on disabled people.
*cawth*rne himself had been under fire JUST THE WEEK BEFORE for spending his vacation at H*TLER’s summer home. But because of inspiration porn and nondisabled people’s inability to actually contend with racism in the disability community, now disabled bodies are being
Weaponized. White disabled people believe their proximity to whiteness will lead to socioeconomic advancement, and too many are resentful that they are unable to exercise white privileged as their nondisabled peers. As facism rises, they will want to position themselves
Closer to a power that is supposed to save them, but inevitably will not. Most authoritarian governments dispose of disabled people first—as is what happened during the Holocaust and what is currently happening with the pandemic. (I also predict a rise in conversations around
Legislation for assisted suicide).
Nondisabled people are truly unprepared for this because they’ve applied the same restrictive white supremacist hierarchy to the disability community and are less likely to listen to disabled BIPOC.
Keep an eye out for disabled white people
Nondisabled people are truly unprepared for this because they’ve applied the same restrictive white supremacist hierarchy to the disability community and are less likely to listen to disabled BIPOC.
Keep an eye out for disabled white people
Moving in this way to sidle up to authoritarian viewpoints using their own bodies as inspiration porn to do so.
You all are unprepared.
You all are unprepared.
