03-24-2024, 11:51 PM
One thing I love about all the "ableist" discourse, especially when it crosses over with the "antiwork" people, is if you have any experience with like Down Syndrome people they love being given "normal" tasks to accomplish and treated as if they're being super helpful like everybody else. Even if it's just mopping the floor or whatever. And the maybe once a week they go in to do that stuff is a super big deal they're excited for. Like oh yeah, totally everybody needs me here to do this.
Or if you have to help them, you let them do as much as they can and don't take whatever from them but try to show them or teach them. Because they mostly seem to hate being treated as useless or incapable more than anything. The way they get frustrated and impatient seems very different.
Then you hop on Twitter and see this kind of discourse and what kind of people they are.
It's like we blew past tolerating others into being demanded that we be intolerant towards any recognition of difference at all.
Or if you have to help them, you let them do as much as they can and don't take whatever from them but try to show them or teach them. Because they mostly seem to hate being treated as useless or incapable more than anything. The way they get frustrated and impatient seems very different.
Then you hop on Twitter and see this kind of discourse and what kind of people they are.
It's like we blew past tolerating others into being demanded that we be intolerant towards any recognition of difference at all.
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