#ableism — Public Fediverse posts

Can we please stop with the Trump nappy jokes? Millions of people have continence issues and they are intelligent, kind, and doing their best.

Incontinence is not moral failure. It does not say anything about Trump's character.

Your cruel insults do not reach his ears. He does not care, because he is surrounded by people desperate to flatter him and prop up his monstrous ego.

But your cruel insults reach millions of people who have done you no harm.

They reach children. they learn that mocking people's bodies is OK. It is obviously the behavior of the morally superior.

Do we have to have this fight over everything? You can't attack people for their bodies. You can't attack them for their skin color, their penis size, their sex, their height, their voice, their hair, their disability, or any other thing that are just natural parts of their humanity.

And don't reply with any eye-for-an-eye bullshit. If you can't argue against fascism without kicking random minorities yourself, YOU are a fascist.

For fuck's sake.

#uspol #ableism

Blind, paralyzed CA man left trapped for months awaiting approval for a wheelchair

When thinking of access needs, many think of either/or. Of course, there's nothing about being blind that means you will never also need a wheelchair.

And although journalists use the phrase "wheelchair bound" constantly, wheelchairs are freeing - it's *without* the wheelchair that you're in trouble if you would not otherwise have mobility.

Medicare and other insurers are *terrible* about approving costs for wheelchairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqi2A4ysgSc #SFBayArea #Medicare #Ableism #Disability

This account I'm tooting from? Took it mostly private to talk about my own personal stuff...which can get heavy.

But since I kept this acct, I couldn't just move all my 2.5K followers over to a new account.

If you've ever liked my toots on ableism, accessibility, cycling, fruit, politics, history, language, etc. please follow me at the below account.

#Introduction #BikeNite #Cycling #Disability #Ableism #Botany

https://eldritch.cafe/@ml/117349567220674418

@AnarchistArt The phrase "no war but class war" has been coopted by reactionary leftists to insinuate that intersectional issues are a struggle that is pointless and beneath them, that, somehow if we abolish capitalism then racism, sexism, ageism, colorism, ableism, queermisia will just melt away (I've never even seen such people acknowledge speciesism at all)

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #ClassReductionism #Leftism #IntersectionalAnarchism #Intersectionality #Capitalism #Racism #Sexism #Ageism #Colorism #Ableism #Queermisia #NoWarButClassWar