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  1. #FactCheck #PSA to get ahead of some #Misinformation...

    #HellenKeller was a real, #Historical figure. She was in fact, #deaf and #blind, due to a #measles infection when she was a baby, a known potential injury from it which drives the push for #Vaccines. She was a major proponent of the #Disability inclusion, #Feminist, and general #CivilRights movements of the early to mid 1900s. She is a major figure among #marginalized groups.

    Claims from the #History-#skeptic, #AntiVax, and White Supremacist movements that she is fictional are false: she was a real person who actually lived, with extensive news reports and official documents of her exploits, including meeting presidents Cleveland and Johnson, and we have a whole archive of videos about her. The movie about her is based on the historically accurate story of her childhood.

    You can see a video of Hellen Keller on her nonprofit foundation's channel at...

    youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M

    #ableist #ableism #FediAbleism

  2. After seeing how #FediAntisemitism can be useful as a tag (not getting into the issue of false positives on it), I'd like to see something like that for other #Moderation issues we see on the #Fediverse.

    I propose we start using the tags #FediRacism, #FediQueerphobia, #FediTransphobia, and #FediAbleism when posting about examples of those things.

    This will have three major uses...

    1) Serve as a more specific warning to instances that are actively trying to protect themselves against those things. (eg, Black or Queer instances that need to spot #Racism and #Queerphobia fast to protect their users from #Harassment)

    2) Give us a more direct way to track these issues on the network at large, and thus collect data on them.

    3) Provide a more granular tagging for #FediBlock and #InstanceBlock posts.

    I would like to say all this with the disclaimer that these tags always have false positives, so I encourage people to check the receipts before they block.

    What are people's thoughts on this?

  3. This is some disgusting ableist shit lol. Didn't even try to mince words; just went straight to "mental retardation". This is the "inclusiveness" the left is championing? ​:reimu_sigh:​

    And of course,
    pulling the race and gender card when called out on it just because the person who challenged the post happens to be a white man

    #ableism #fediableism

    RE:
    https://mastodon.social/users/ErickaSimone/statuses/113527681698818580