This pandemic has been a call for academics to lean into new forms of solidarity and to learn to live by more radical politics. I'm so disappointed that 3 years in, I see so few seriously taking up this call, especially in relation to disability and access https://t.co/LnQ5oraS16
@reesiepeacie Thats probably not a real response that gets you anywhere with people, though. The challenge is real. I have a friend who I thought got it who started saying this and at this point I really struggle to not blow-up at ppl when they make these kinds of excuses
@reesiepeacie I also don’t buy that it’s actually for their mental health so much as it’s abled entitlement. It’s like saying you need to cross a picket line for your mental health. Do you actually or are you unwilling to do the work of practicing solidarity because of the social consequences?
“This is ableist”
Shut up, no it’s not. It’s a Disabled person making accommodations for themselves without ripping off other people’s work and killing the planet.
This argument completely ignores systemic ableism & coercion disabled people face
“The same principle applies to assisted dying. If you don’t like the idea of assisted dying, don’t seek medical assistance to arrange your own death.”
The Biden administration is the most failed Democratic administration in modern history and it isn’t even close. Almost a million dead from Covid in the post-vaccine period, a genocide in Palestine, topped off by handing the White House back to Trump. A true one term failure.
Those talking about community:
Will you be including disabled people in your community? Or are you content with leaving us to die like you’ve been doing since & long before 2020?
Because we’ve got something you don’t, and you won’t know what that is unless you include us.
Disabled & high risk people are feeling betrayed & outage by proposed mask bans that are effectively the new Ugly laws in this fascist dystopian eugenic society
No one has our backs except us. Both parties do not deserve our votes
I feel very alone w/ so much rage