• @goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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    -21 year ago

    Are you disabled? Since if you’re not, you’re not in a position to be lecturing if disabilities are good or bad.

    • @FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s subjective of course. Some people choose to believe that disabilities are bad, and can be used as an insult.

      I choose to believe that abled and disabled people are equal, that belief is a core tenent of my value system, and I will lecture on it regardless of how it makes you feel.

          • @goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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            11 year ago

            They are inherently not equal—those disabled lack abled bodies and minds. I know it’s semantic, but the word you’re looking for is equity, not equality.

            I still don’t find offence to the word retard, I use it all the time. I don’t need you, someone who is presumably able-bodied, to lecture me if the word is acceptable or not. Are you going to lecture a minority not to use particular slurs? You’re in no position to do any of this, and I certainly don’t need you to defend me from words. I can stand up for myself, thank you.

                • @FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                  11 year ago

                  Right, so when talk about “equality”, literally not even able-bodied people are equal at jobs or outcomes. Some people can lift heavier weights, some people do better on IQ tests, some people run faster, some people sing better. When we talk about equality, it’s never referring to ability to achieve something, because that equality does not exist.

                  When we speak of equality, we speak of the level of rights you deserve.

                  And not that it’s any of your business, but I was diagnosed with Asperger’s in 2002. I don’t bring it up in internet conversations partially because the TikTok self diagnosis wave has made it meaningless.

    • @FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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      11 year ago

      It’s subjective of course. Some people choose to believe that disabilities are bad, and can be used as an insult.p

      I choose to believe that abled and disabled people are equal, that belief is a core tenent of my value system, and I will lecture on it regardless of how it makes you feel.

      • PugJesus
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        Man, I have physical disabilities and mental illness. It’s not equal. It fucking sucks.

        I’ve tried to purge ‘retard’ from my vocabulary simply because it has been used terribly, but the point of view that is “All deficiencies are equal and must never be said to be bad” will lead to no criticism, much less hyperbole or humor, being able to be levied at all. I imagine that, should such sentiments take root in the common consciousness, they would snap back before long rather than create some doomsday newspeak scenario, but it’s terribly annoying to deal with it nonetheless.

        That being said, I do respect you standing up for your point of view unapologetically.