Well, he should be required to do so, because that is a general precondition of disabled people participating freely in society
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
I should make this super clear too The ADA is only enforceable on people who are operating a business that serves the general public But if this were a purely private, personal interaction - "Sorry, I don't want dogs in my carpool" - he's still morally an asshole
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
You have the "right" to do all kinds of things As long as I own the title to a thing and I'm not running a public business I can ban anyone from anything I can say I'm not comfortable with gay people using my bathroom No one can sue me for it, but I'm still an asshole
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
Defending this as some kind of absolute *moral* right is not fucking leftism It's by definition "liberal" (or, if you prefer, "libertarian") The thing about not letting gay people use his toilet is a true story about Ron Paul
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
And the fact that you keep invoking it ("He was being FORCED to let that dirty dog into HIS CAR! His OWN PERSONAL CAR! The car that he OWNS as his PROPERTY") means you don't have the standing to talk down to other people as "radlibs" you think you do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
People may have a "right" to their passive "well-meaning" bigotries based on falsehoods ("Service dogs stink up the place", "A gay man might leave AIDS on my toilet seat", "A woman in the office? That'll attract bears!") but every little choice where they act on them is a harm
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
All the little stuff adds up into big stuff and ends up materially excluding a member of that group from society "Service dogs can't ride in my car", if everyone thinks so, makes life ENORMOUSLY harder for people already struggling to avoid an IMAGINARY COST
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
And yeah, I guess I'm a radlib because I think in the world as it currently exists we have a positive responsibility to at least try to be decent instead of arguing no worker is responsible for anything until the revolution comes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
I don't think it's reasonable to ask disabled people to wait until we have full communism and the state can pay highly trained professionals to treat them like people instead of making us poor working stiffs do it Fine But don't call your stance solidarity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @badspaceguy
It's identity politics, it's solidarity with workers you can put yourself in the shoes of and defining people you can't as nonworkers, lumpen You haven't once acknowledged that the disabled person in this conservation IS A WORKER and ableism materially affects HER livelihood
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Don't think I haven't caught the repeated references to her using Uber to "beg for a ride" (as opposed to purchasing a ride, like any other customer, that she is entitled to) or "begging for donations" on Patreon (as opposed to seeing compensated for her labor through Patreon)
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