5:50am October 16, 2014

➸ When You're Not "Loud and Angry Enough"

chavisory:

k-pagination:

We clearly need to figure something out, as a community. When the Autistic community has scared a good amount of Autistic people into not being able to say things, what has it become? I was one of them, for a while. I’m not going into direct confrontations on Facebook (I don’t have spoons to deal…

So, I think the “loud, angry” approach has value, and has a place, and that the genuine anger that it comes from is absolutely valid.

What I think needs to go back to wherever it came from and stay there, is the party line that if you ask for a basic level of civility in some forums, you’re “telling people to be nice to their oppressors,” or that you “only care about safeguarding the feelings of oppressors,” or must only be seeking the approval or acceptance of the dominant group.

Or that if you say something like “hey, maybe this approach is not the most helpful right here in this context,” you are “silencing.”  Or that being uncomfortable with telling people to die is “tone policing.”

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