Oh yeah bigotry of all kinds is everywhere but ableism in particular is openly defended all over the political map A lot of people have very strong feelings about what responsibilities we expect from people as a society and then get super pissy when people "make excuses" over ithttps://twitter.com/johnnylemuria/status/1220377087992909824 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
in rawls' Theory of Justice, he literally defines society as a union of cooperating workers, contemplating how to divide up the goods they produce which is to say, perhaps the most famous modern liberal theorist felt that the disabled were not even entitled to scraps
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rather, that any dividend provided to them was an exercise in pure charity on the part of the actual citizens of society
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and when stated so baldly this is obviously monstrous but so many seem to accept this since when disabled people do not beg for charity, but assert their rights, they are met with overwhelming resentment and accusations of entitlement
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if coffee had phrased her initial request in the manner of the penitent, pitiable beggar, hoping society might Do Better, i doubt she'd have received so much pushback it's the part where she knows and asserts her actual legal and moral rights that's driving so many mad
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Yes People are fucking furious that the ADA exists, and are actively framing it as one of the unjust laws that radical liberation shall free us from
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