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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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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@puellavulnerata True. And ethnic groups have family and cultural bonds. Point is that recognizability indicates a form of counterprivilege.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@puellavulnerata The worst off are the least visible, because they're denied community and identification along with other things.
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@puellavulnerata (Invisibility can be a tactical advantage when a pogrom is on, ofc. But even the Nazis went after the disabled first.)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 1 more reply
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