2/ But while it's one of the least addressed, it's one of the most important, for at least two reasons:
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3/ First, disability is a locus where the individual is oppressed *by reality itself*. Blackness may be a social construct, blindness isn't.
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4/ Second, since disability mostly lacks Schelling points, the disabled are mostly denied "sangha"--community of oppression.
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5/ Being, for example, gay, can bring people together into a shared culture; that shared culture is itself a form of (counter)privilege.
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6/ There are islands of that among the disabled, eg deaf culture, but it's not the norm, particularly for the worst off.
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7/ The psychiatric survivors movement never took off, for obv. reasons. I find crazy people difficult to be around, and I'm nuts.
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8/ To sum up: ableism is important, in part exactly because it's difficult to formulate in terms of identity.
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@St_Rev@drethelin one example: the media jumping on conclusion that Elliot Roger was autistic.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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