Anonymous #3 21h

exactly, its only ableist/just a blatant dick move to treat people like they’re stupid or less than if they don’t know what the word means already

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Anonymous #5 20h

more importantly: I think feeling the need to make your own post pushing back against this functionally-nonexistent claim is a bad idea, bc it contributes to the notion that people who are outspoken about disability justice issues are mostly delusional, histrionic etc look at the top comment on this post. when you see “oh, so now it’s racist to say [thing that isn’t racist] 🙄”, doesn’t that give you the impression that the speaker is reluctant to take allegations of racism seriously In General?

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Anonymous #5 20h

please notice, for instance, that so far I am the only person in this thread who Didn’t uncritically accept the idea that there really is a significant swath of people (specifically people who speak openly about ableism!) voicing this goofy opinion. by making this post you effectively perpetuated the belief that this is a real opinion being expressed by a significant number of real disabled people or our allies

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Anonymous #5 20h

you say nobody genuinely believes this but i can guarantee you someone actually does in this day & age & the people that do believe it are not disabled themselves or allies to disabled people. it’s not uncritical to accept that someone has this opinion given the absurdity that exists today.

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Anonymous #5 20h

The context surrounding this is someone on instagram make the demand that authors put smaller words in their books because they personally didn’t understand them which lead to someone piggybacking off that and saying the phrase I said above. In my opinion it wasn’t someone trying to ragebait but rather someone trying to use the disability community as an excuse to not learn big words or have to use resources in order to define the word.

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Anonymous OP 19h

they do realize that the point of books is learning new things and bigger words… right?

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Anonymous #2 19h

you can’t expect someone that says some stupid shit like it being ableist to have big words in books to have any critical thinking skills.

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Anonymous #2 19h

From what I can tell the people that agree with these statements typically are those failed by the current education system and were never properly taught how to read and thus struggle with big words. They also seem to be the type that lacks the ability to put any effort into learning and would rather things be spoon fed to them so they infantilize disabled people to get their way.

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Anonymous OP 19h

if someone is out there trying to disingenuously use the language of disability justice to prop up their own bullshit, you are assisting them by making a post like this without explicitly mentioning right off the bat that the rhetoric in question is not being pushed by actual disability activists

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Anonymous #5 19h

I thought it was pretty heavily implied that no one in the disabled community said this because no one in the disabled community would ever think this was actually a thing. There are grifters that say shit like this all the time because they will never even try to learn what our real issues are and instead make up their own issues to make posts about.

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Anonymous OP 19h

refer to what I said about how it sounds when someone says “oh, now it’s racist to say [thing that isn’t racist]? 🙄”—part of why that type of remark is so effective as a dogwhistle is because it *implicitly* treats victims of racism as The Real Problem (for speaking up, as in) while maintaining plausible deniability. almost no one who sees those comments would presume the complaint is in reference to people who Don’t experience racism but still talk about it

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Anonymous OP 19h

similarly, when people see a post like yours, and they aren’t 1) familiar with that specific tiktok discourse and 2) particularly well-versed in disability justice rhetoric, they aren’t going to interpret this post as “disabled activists are having their movement misappropriated”, they’re just going to see “damn, those disability justice types are pushing some real bullshit talking points”

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Anonymous #5 19h

Ok I’m just gonna block you because you are blowing this way out of proportion and blaming me for you not asking context.

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Anonymous OP 16h

theyve done the same downplaying thing on other posts bc they can’t fathom how people might disrespect & abuse awareness abt disabled people

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