It's not that ableism doesn't exist, (clearly people have prejudices towards and even actively discriminate against people with mental illness), it's just that every single person who has ever gotten upset about it should have their opinions fastidiously ignored.
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Deaf culture is totally insane but it at least has the bona fides of arising out of history of social isolation and alienation rather than something people heard about on the computer.
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i don't want to make this comparision because nobody involved will like it, but i see crossover with stuff like this and "incel"-adjacent spaces, where you end up with cultish groups which provide comfort but discourage self improvement and shun people who want to leave
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