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12:42am June 16, 2013

➸ Trying to find the right words: To continue with my points about physically disabled people throwing other people under the bus

fogwithwheels:

let me remind you,

when you do this, you are attempting to gain privilege by removing yourself from the negative associations the rest of us receive. However, you will still have only conditional privilege, and you will never have the same value as those above you.

What…

Autistic people do this too.

“At least we aren’t crazy. At least we aren’t retarded.”

(Those are the words used.)

Or trying really hard to prove they’re not these things because its Really Important.

Notes:
  1. meeresbande reblogged this from plures
  2. cool-yubari reblogged this from fogwithwheels and added:
    Activists of every stripe need to learn this. As long as there is a category of “people it’s okay to oppress,” formerly...
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  4. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from amorpha-system and added:
    Speaking of delusions, I’ve had the real thing while delirious and they’re quite real and not a reason to discount...
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  7. plures reblogged this from amorpha-system and added:
    This, so much. I really don’t think that it’s necessarily a good idea to engage in the sort of activism that simply sits...
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  9. hellomynameismaddy reblogged this from fogwithwheels
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  11. clatterbane reblogged this from fogwithwheels and added:
    I can’t add much right now, but pretty much all the commentary.
  12. amorpha-system reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    There are actually a lot of similar dynamics we’ve noticed in the autistic community and in the plural community. We’ve...
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