Kulturkampf

[benji]

Destigmatization efforts went too far or something. What was supposed to be realizing that things didn't make someone a bad person doesn't mean things still aren't bad. And then people took it further into being positive attributes. Now mental illness and trauma is something people want because it becomes self-justifying to how they want to behave. And is a shield, how dare you criticize me, I'm [whatever].

It's actually doing the inverse of destigmatization. You're basically saying anyone not "perfect" (so everybody) is an ungrateful narcissist asshole and uses their [whatever] purely to deflect criticism.

I mean the above tweet and my comment about Down Syndrome people do seem true to me. You just don't see people with actual trauma and/or disabilities trying to ward off everything by the mere fact they have them. If they mention it it's only in stuff that's relevant and they think you might have possibly missed it. You weren't treating them bad because of "ableism" you were forgetting or not noticing their disability and were treating them abled. It's treating them "normal" out of ignorance not condemning them out of hatred.

I know this isn't the other forums thread but you know that one staff member on ResetERA.com, Ra, that's quadriplegic? Guy basically never brings that up, especially not to the level that everyone else on the forum brings up all their imagined shit. If he ever does that kind of stuff it's about being Black. There's this weird twisted logic to that entire culture of victimhood where reality isn't actually relevant.