And people think there will NEVER be any consequences to all this unchecked ableism.... I'd argue that the slow burn collapse of modern "society" is one of those consequences
Disabled people have a much higher suicide rate, not because of our disability but because we're treated as unwanted. "If you're too high risk to be in crowds, you should just stay home." You're saying the quiet part out loud. You openly think it's okay we're not in society.
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Disabled people have a much higher suicide rate, not because of our disability but because we're treated as unwanted. "If you're too high risk to be in crowds, you should just stay home." You're saying the quiet part out loud. You openly think it's okay we're not in society.
I’ll repost immediately and leave it here, at least for now, for folks to slowly digest…
The central conflict is antiBlack racism and structural whiteness. The rest is noise.
Again— the only “minorities” we’re encouraged to “support” are those who are:
1) white-passing or racially ambiguous in physical appearance
2) not Black American or descended from enslaved people
3) connected to white people by family/romantic relations
I’m so glad that people are waking up to the fact that Black excellence is bullshit and extremely reactive. I was seeing & saying this shit 10 years ago.
Society wants Black people to stomach racism with a smile and extend grace to literal racists.
Fuck that.
Fuck you.
Fuck them.
Fuck around and find out.
They’re killing us and making some of kill ourselves?!?
I’m enraged and I’m not playing into respectability politics.
The “American experiment” is too fundamentally antiBlack for anyone to participate in it without participating in structural racism against Black people
I hate when Europeans say “why r Americans so obsessed with race” because they created race, not Americans. White Americans are their descendants. Europe pretends that race doesn’t exist while being as racist as Americans which makes it super difficult to fight racism.