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6:05am August 6, 2012

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josiahd:

It is possible for someone who is * to think something is *ist and be wrong.

Which means that someone who is told by a * that something they’re doing is *ist has the evaluate whether it’s true and act accordingly.

It does *not* mean that they should uncritically agree.

The thing that matters is whether they have in fact done something bad, not just whether someone thinks they have.

Wow. Just the other day was going to point that out.

The problem is I know exactly why people say that, say, if a disabled person says you’re disablist then you are.

It’s because when you’re not disabled, it’s so very easy to see something you’ve done as not disablist. To have serious trouble spotting disablism in most forms.

And when you’re disabled and consequently much better at spotting disablism, it’s really way easier to say that if you say it is, it is. Than to figure out how to explain it. Or to have the spoons to explain it. Etc.

And I’m not saying easier like it’s lazy. It’s not. It’s just easier. And there are tons of way that’s justified.

Except I’m really disillusioned with it now because I’ve seen where it can go. And it doesn’t always go somewhere useful. Sometimes it goes somewhere damaging. And those sometimes aren’t just isolated instances. And the damage happens. And I can’t just write that off anymore.

Nothing specific has happened, either. To me or anyone I know. I’ve just been watching a lot of ideas unraveling in front of me and this was one of them.