So is no one going to talk about how Madison Cawthorne was instrumental in stoking insurrection or are nondisabled people unfamiliar with white supremacy in the disability community?

For all that talk about calling racism a disability you don’t seem to want to deal with it...
Disabled BIPOC have been raising the alarm on this for years but people fail to listen. White supremacy is a part of the disability community no matter how much you want to brush these things aside.

The fact is that any POC with a disability on this app has been met with as
Much racism from disabled peers as anyone else.

Do you think the who’re woman stabbing people at target from her wheelchair during the BLM protests was an isolated incident?

We have been trying to sound the alarm for years but because you’re used to treating disabled people
Like children, you don’t believe such complex systems could operate within the disability community.

I personally have heard such statements from white disabled people like “the ADA is as bad as Jim Crowe.” And “being disabled is the same as being Black.” There are disability
Community leaders caught on camera saying “Democrats care more about illegals than disabled people.” And yet, you all don’t recognize any of this.

Madison Cawthorne is just as culpable, but I don’t see him being held to account any time soon. Because you all have given him
The tools to escape it because you all have a hard time even admitting these things exist. And which system is going to hold accountable a man who “stood in is wheelchair to ‘inspire’ Americans?”

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18 Dec 20
So, I may have worked out how tiktok is silencing marginalized creators and it stems from something @alexhaagaard told me and an observation I made after @_benjvmins_ ‘s profile was removed....

Thread of videos:

Pt. 1
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13 Dec 20
Ok, It’s later and I’m ready to talk about it:

Other than the fact you all left us to die one of the most infuriating aspects to 2020 is that during the 30th anniversary of the Americans with disabilities act, you all were so incredibly inept when it came to discussing the law.
There will always be a certain number of people who will never be able to use masks, but the way anti-maskers toyed with the ADA to spread disease is unconscionable on for them AND FOR THEM. Yes, I blame you both.

Allow me to put it this way: neither side knew the ADA well
Enough to engage in this level of bullshit: Anti-maskers didn’t know the ADA well enough to use it and you all didn’t know it well enough to defend it. And you all can use the excuse that “you didn’t know the law because it doesn’t pertain to you,” but that’d be a lie, because it
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12 Dec 20
I’m coming to the conclusion that ignorance of invisible disabilities partially stems from the combination of capitalism and the Ugly Laws that legally penalized disabled people for being seen in public.

You see, capitalism requires easy segregation of who is seen as profitable
And who is not. People with physical disabilities that are visible can easily be segregated from the general public and demonized for not contributing to the capitalist structure and using benefits, the same cannot be said for those with invisible illnesses. They’re gaslit about
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21 Nov 20
Here is a full summary of Sia’s actions in the last 24 hours. Fun fact, Tiktok is actively suppressing it...

#SiaDoesntSpeakForUs
Working on a transcript now
🧵 So if you're wondering why disabled people specifically autistic, people are pissed at Sia, here's a summary of what happened in the last 48 hours. And Trigger warning because Sia gaslights and mocks disabled people. So around Thursday the trailer for see his new film “Music”
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3 Oct 20
Ok, so last night I made a thread of using ableism as a strategy for talking about #TrumpHasCovid that will inevitably backfire on liberals, leftists and democrats.

Since then I have been saving GOOD EXAMPLES of communication around it threaded here:

THREAD:
The framing of Trump’s diagnosis as a result of his consistent recklessness even endangering the lives of those trying to protect him:
Framing his access to healthcare around the fact that all citizens should have that level of care regardless of income:
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2 Oct 20
A lot of pundits tweeting about Trump’s diagnosis have no experience or desire to evaluate ableism in news media.

Many more have an active hand in perpetuating it. I am begging you all to listen to disabled people on how this would be used.

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Here are 3 scenarios regarding his ailment and how it will play out in media.
1. He recovers fully and downplays the effects of the virus. His supporters continue to gaslight the public about the veracity of the virus and they make him into a folk hero for “overcoming” his diagnosis. They will effectively erase his record as president and substitute in
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