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9:23pm February 29, 2012

➸ Perpetually Myself: In many ways, one of the saddest things about the awful comments on...

allies-person:

jemimaaslana:

reasonlogicandfacts:

allies-person:

In many ways, one of the saddest things about the awful comments on That Site is the absolute ignorance that many people who claim to be PWD have about the disability movement.

Like, one person complained that the social model of disability contributes to cultural silence around the issue of…

Talking about people behind their backs, making fun of them and not even quoting them? If you disagree with the comment so much, you should have made your opinion known. Preaching to the choir takes no effort.

Oh hi there, asshat, maybe you missed the part where the OP engaged in the debate over there and were called a fucking shitstain for daring to be a person with disabilities who does not think our kind should be eradicated for the comforts of abled people.

Maybe you missed the part where anti-ableist commenters at THAT SITE were banned for using the word bitches, while the ableist commenters were allowed to call everyone anti-ableist shitstains and other assorted things, and eventually were only mildly reprimanded for using the r-word.

Maybe you missed the part where anti-ableist commenters gave up and left the conversation because THAT SITE is condoning and engaging in ableist rhetoric, making it entirely fucking necessary for a person to rant about it somewhere else in order to not completely blow up with rage akin to the fiery burning of a thousand suns.

So sit down and shut up before you lecture people on the way they handle their own oppression.

The OP anonymized everything in order to rant about this WITHOUT getting anymore of the hatred being spewed at the place they’re talking about. And there you go and get all up in their business without knowing jack-shit yourself.

Thank you, Jem.  I stopped commenting there directly because it was harming my mental health.  I only have so much tolerance for nastiness.

And it’s exhausting beyond the awareness of such people to try to argue in favor of your own existence. It’s always reasonable to back off and talk to people who get it. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you different. I know people who refuse to even talk about this because the disability hatred it unmasks in other people is so intense, and so focused on the core of our being, that it’s worse in many ways than a punch to the face. I’m very nearly one such person. I don’t have the strength to handle such an assault most of the time. And I shouldn’t have to. No one should. The fault here lies with the people doing the assaulting, and their rationalization of it. Not with us for wanting to discuss it with people who aren’t being cruel.