So, more things-contains links
Feb. 14th, 2018 01:52 pmADA things:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/hr-620-could-put-disability-rights-at-risk
And a different take on the same thing:
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/02/13/proposed-bill-is-an-attack-on-disability-rights-groups-say
Ug...yup the dump-us-all administration definitely has a lot to answer for, especially if this is all them, which wouldn't surprise us.
ETA: I'm hearing that this thing has passed in the House of Reps. :(
someone on twitter says that she will never understand ableds who don't think that society hates disabled people on a fundamental level, and that this bill has passed for any ableds to pretend to care about disabled people's civil rights.
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I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the 'hate' and 'pretend to care'. ... that, to me, spjits on cities like Denver, Seattle, and others on the lists![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ysabetwordsmith put up in comment threads=-and makes actual efforts of people look pultry and as after thoughts. Which, Okay, some, maybe, but not all-and that sort of language doesn't help anything, or anyone, in my opinion, anyway.
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What's sad is I have an easier time wrapping my mind around society hating the poor/the black/native populations than the disabled-and we are still among the hated, whether it is because we *are* poor (as of this writing) or because our religion is not the mainstream Christian one that America seems to like to profess is 'all theirs' and all we are (so not true).
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But I have a hard time directing the hate as us as disabled people, because I feel as if we are so much in the mainstream now, that it is like saying that the mainstream hates itself...and I cannot go there...it's too viserally wrong. Even if, as Clarien has said, (he's hanging around here a bit) it is a harsh truth. He also has said that it is not a helpful one-and I am still trying to unpack that...because it doesn't really make sense to me :/. -Fallon+~ Edit: Feb 16, 2018
-SPCFolks~
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/hr-620-could-put-disability-rights-at-risk
And a different take on the same thing:
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/02/13/proposed-bill-is-an-attack-on-disability-rights-groups-say
Ug...yup the dump-us-all administration definitely has a lot to answer for, especially if this is all them, which wouldn't surprise us.
ETA: I'm hearing that this thing has passed in the House of Reps. :(
someone on twitter says that she will never understand ableds who don't think that society hates disabled people on a fundamental level, and that this bill has passed for any ableds to pretend to care about disabled people's civil rights.
...
I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the 'hate' and 'pretend to care'. ... that, to me, spjits on cities like Denver, Seattle, and others on the lists
ysabetwordsmith put up in comment threads=-and makes actual efforts of people look pultry and as after thoughts. Which, Okay, some, maybe, but not all-and that sort of language doesn't help anything, or anyone, in my opinion, anyway....
What's sad is I have an easier time wrapping my mind around society hating the poor/the black/native populations than the disabled-and we are still among the hated, whether it is because we *are* poor (as of this writing) or because our religion is not the mainstream Christian one that America seems to like to profess is 'all theirs' and all we are (so not true).
...
But I have a hard time directing the hate as us as disabled people, because I feel as if we are so much in the mainstream now, that it is like saying that the mainstream hates itself...and I cannot go there...it's too viserally wrong. Even if, as Clarien has said, (he's hanging around here a bit) it is a harsh truth. He also has said that it is not a helpful one-and I am still trying to unpack that...because it doesn't really make sense to me :/. -Fallon+~ Edit: Feb 16, 2018
-SPCFolks~
