1/ "Ableism" is problematic, in the correct sense: difficult to formulate, complex, cuts up reality awkwardly.https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/615998461855412224 …
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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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