Hey you want to talk about something not the US debate?

Mostly off here for reasons but just came on to rage tweet about the role white good crips play in the oppression of disabled poor and/or racialized people.

Imagine now, in this moment during a pandemic, being a disabled person thinking the journalism coverage we need is about a wealthy white disabled woman who choose MAID and writing about it in a way to make this seem appealing choice - ignoring suicide contagion concerns?

What is the news value of that? Do tell me? Bc the law is not new. So why would you do that when there are not one but two disabled people in two different provinces who've been interviewed by media - usually indicates many more not being covered - considering MAID out of poverty

How far up your privileged ass does your head have to be to ignore way disabled people have been a 'but only' during the pandemic. "But only those people will die" so it's fine.
Just zipping by the Malthusian billboards to cover the 'news' story that is PR fluff for death cult

This is why rePReSenTAtion will never save us. I spent years on here advocating for disabled reporter. They hired a non journalist - fine, ok - with PR background - red flag - who has zip class or other analysis. Please just hire ableds if this is shit we get.

Seriously. We'd be better off with a non-disabled journalist with lived experience of poverty and some class analysis than this shit.

And then let's talk about politics - not US, BC election.
We have a disabled white man running on a platform of bashing disabled poor people.

I am just drowing in rePResenTAtion out here. Three MLAs running for re-election who use their disability stories like clubs to beat other crips over the head with.

Can you give me a little less rePResenTAtion and a lot more justice? Policy? Rights?

This is the recipe and I am tired of being an ingredient in it:

Poor, racialized bad crips fight for rights, justice
This creates space, need - bc we can't be ignored at a certain point
Powerful people pluck out a privileged good crip to sit at the table in some way.

In this way the result is those who were most marginalized and who fought the fight end up more excluded. The good crips don't know, don't care about the issues they just want to keep their seat so they don't say/do anything that'll rock boat. https://twitter.com/mssinenomine/status/1311148803282542592?s=20

In literal absolute tangible way, they intensify and worsen exclusion in the name of 'creating inclusion.'

Another example of this is the Disability Advisory Council appointed by federal Liberals for COVID. They are out here shilling for the Liberals.

The most snivelling to power, bootlicking, lackeys - chaired by a wealthy white man who is not even disabled.

I am sick and tired of pretending there is a disability community - there are bad crips and there are good crips.

If you learned about poverty from a book then you are as limited in your knowledge of it as if - like me - you learned about racism from a book.

When it comes to these professions - journalism, politicians, advisory councils - our bar should be lived expertise PLUS analysis, PLUS relevant background.

These are serious issues and they involve serious study to not only understand them but to not do more harm engaging in.

We deserve more than tokens. We deserve leaders of our choosing not theirs. We deserve people who have devoted time and effort to learning beyond their lived expertise. We deserve people with humility and who want justice and to leave no one behind.
Justice - not just them.

None of those good crips represent me. None of them speak for me. None of them do anything but make my life worse, my exclusion worse. They are exploitative af and promote themselves off the labour of people who they help grind into the earth.

We are not friends.

The article/radio thing that inspired this is on CBC and involves a West Van disabled woman. I am not sharing bc I don't want to amplify but I know sometimes people want to understand context.

That the person who did the story is disabled makes it all the more disgusting.

The politician I'm referring to is BC Liberal Sam Sullivan, though could equally apply to Stephanie Cadieux or Michelle Stilwell, Sullivan has taken it to a particular level with his support for Safer Vancouver, the group that films and harasses homeless people until they snap.

The Chair of the Advisory council I mention is Al Etmanski.

So don't call this a subtweet. You have the names.

We need disability justice now more than ever. This is not it. We need disabled people who are fighting to survive voices amplified. This is not it. We need disabled leaders with access is love in their heart and everyone belongs in their head. This is not them.

Disabled poor and low income people in Canada are hanging on by last thread and the good crips are sitting pretty holding the scissors. They are not part of my community nor I theirs.

Pick a side. But don’t pretend.

Just love reading how difficulty swallowing is reason to die in Canadian media. I’ve had that symptom since 2008. Rich white lady can off herself in private but no had to use this chance - with help of another privileged disabled lady - to remind everyone I’d be better off dead.

This is literal shit they used to try to force me to sign DNR in 2009. This is what makes me terrified to go to hospital even when I need to. But so so glad CBC has done this ‘inclusion’ hire.
Jfc

You want to know how that ‘deep serious journalism’ by CBC came to be? I promise you the well heeled pro assisted suicide lobby (real thing - they have a foundation) noticed MAID was getting bad press bc poor crips saying way out of poverty. This is 100% a PR plant.

Just dropping this into this thread. https://twitter.com/mssinenomine/status/1311357419901992961?s=20

Oh and it reminded me of another time privileged disabled people were harmful. https://twitter.com/mssinenomine/status/1228086669493952512?s=20