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As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (67 children)

Why is it hard for you to believe? If someone is telling you that the language you’re using is harmful, is your reaction really to say, basically, that you don’t care and you’re going to continue using it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (46 children)

That's exactly the mentality they have.

Any thought that goes contrary to them being perfect turns them into petulant brats that allow them to justify having a hissy fit against the left.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Dude, I'm about as left leaning as it gets. The mental illness comments mentioned in the article, sure, that's kind of problematic. But statements that are literally just expressions that have been used for probably half a century or more like "falling on deaf ears". Gimme a break. Find something actually a problem to focus on, like the climate crisis, or the Assault on trans rights in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're trolls from Hexbear. They like to label us as ableist and bigots because it makes them feel superior.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they have alts on hexbear, but these people are from kbin.social and lemmy.ca, so.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

I've got accounts all over the fediverse (in case one instance goes down or some fascist or tankie admin bans me.)

The give away is the fact that they keep bringing up race. They have been called racists, intolerant, bigots and are butt hurt about it so they're looking for something to throw back at people to make themselves feel better and to use as a bludgeon to silence the people calling them racists, intolerant, bigots, etc.

It's concern trolling. Don't take them seriously.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They're from an instance I don't like!!!1!"

... Shows screenshot proving they're not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was actually two separate points. First, a troll brigade (unrelated to the screen shot.) Second, projection, using the ableism argument to try to make yourselves seem morally superior (illustrated by the protection in the screenshot.)

I'm sorry I confused you. I'll try to keep each comment to a single, simple idea from now on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You literally said "they" were from hexbear and then "they" in the next sentence. Use proper English if you don't want to imply what you implied

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They", as in the three or four members of the brigade. Or, the gender neutral "they", whatever.

I was actually referring to multiple people. Not everything is about you.

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