Estimated 300 million people worldwide have a rare disease, which is about 4%. Higher in US and Europe, prob. bc better reporting. 2/n
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Add in less rare disabiling conditions, and the disabled and sick constitute a very large group. Do they count as an oppressed minority? 3/n
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Intersectionalists occasionally give lip service to the diseased, but they're not one of the Big Six (or Big Seven) oppressed groups. 4/n
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I privately think of this as related to as "sangha privilege". Sangha, in western Buddhist discourse, means community of belief. 5/n
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The major axes of oppression foregrounded in intersectionality are identities of similarity, around which political action can organize. 6/n
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Ethnic and religious identities sustain cultures, ie ways of humans supporting each other. Disability, OTOH is marked by difference. 7/n
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Disabled and sick are twice-oppressed: unlikely to have social connections to each other, and less able to act individually. 8/n
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Being schizophrenic in America is far worse than just about anything else I can think of, and it doesn't accumulate political power. 9/n
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You can argue that diseases, as matters of biology and not politics, aren't something that can be addressed by politics. Well... 10/n
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That's the dog that didn't bark. Isn't there a penumbra of oppression in the fact that one cannot organize to defend one's interests? 11/n
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People on the right joke about 'ableism', leftists use it as an afterthought. Seems to me that it deserves more sober attention. 12/12
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@okayultra Heh. Guess I earned that one.
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