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HOW DARE YOU!!! (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 103 points 1 year ago (7 children)

honestly there are plenty of things to make fun of abbott about without being ableist. js

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nothing they would understand. You go high enough and you’re pretty quickly over their heads and it has no effect. Remember this is a studied thing. Conservatives don’t grasp irony and sarcasm. It’s one of the reasons Steven Colbert quit the old show. They didn’t get it and it was having the opposite effect they intended.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    its still not an excuse. i have plenty of friends who think this whole thing is funny, and im just a little disappointed. like just because he's a piece of shit doesn't make it cool to make fun of a disability. she didn't call him "hot wheels" because of like a car collection or whatever, its obviously a reference to his disability.

    while its obviously not a slur in and of itself, if abbott called crockett something adjacent to a slur, im sure we would be up in arms.

    look, i think the dems should do more and fight dirty, but this isn't the way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What does fighting dirty look like to you? Calling a douche who deserves to have a tree fall on him Governor Hot Wheel is pretty mild on the scale imo so what ISN'T too far?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    dirty fighting would be actually doing whatever they can to block and repeal everything trump is doing. gum up the gears in legal battles and shit. proactively undoing much of the gerrymandering. they could have claimed the election was stolen by false electors aligned with trumps agenda.

    in the past decade the republicans have shown great examples of obstructionism and propaganda campaigns.

    i just feel like making fun of a disability is beneath them. am i worried about greg abbott's feelings? fuck no. i care about disabled people reading the news and seeing ableist sentiment cheered on by "progressives". i just think its kinda fucked up so many people don't see it that way.

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  • [+] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If the basis of calling him Hot Wheels is because he's in a wheelchair, it's ableist. Just like the stereotype that "all Asians are good at math" is seemingly positive, it's still a racist statement.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    There was a customer at my old sub shop that some staff dubbed "Hot Wheels" and not endearingly. Everyone hated her, she was rude and mean, and yes she came in with a motorized wheel chair. I phrase it that way because, if you ever delivered to her, she'd answer the door standing up, no chair in sight. She didn't need it, she was just really fat and somehow got an actual wheelchair instead of one of those scooters.

    She also once answered her door naked, expecting the delivery guy to be a man. It wasn't, and she wasn't pleased. Didn't even pay, let alone tip. (She never tipped.)

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    My leg is busted and I can only hobble around with a cane. Finally got accepted into seeing a physical therapist, outlook is good, but its gonna take a while to recover.

    Recently took a paratransit ride.

    Fully disabled guy in a motorized wheelchair got on.

    Within minutes, after he asked me what happened to me, we were joking about how he would probably, actually be able to beat me in a race.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The bus driver was actually great too, younger than me, maybe early or mid 20s, before the wheelchair bound guy got on, we bitched about microtransactions in games, and I was able to confirm that yes, games did not in fact always used to be like they are now, with dark patterns and what not... he sounded like a lot of his friends were trying to gaslight him into just accepting the enshittification as normal, that its always been like this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Right I don't see how it's ableist or an insult. She didn't say it like it's a bad thing or associate it with any assumptions. It's not like she called him "Legless Wonder and his Half Pint Segway" or questioned if he can govern from a chair. It's closer to calling him Governor Brown Hair. Neutral. Silly at worst.

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