This is a critically important thread.📌 Mocking #disability is, alas, bipartisan--everyone loves to do it. When I challenge people about their #ableism, they take offense. Non-disabled people talk over and through #disabled people all the time. Stop using ableist language. ...
https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1373100289507659782
... Disabled people are victimized on so many levels by so many people. Performative #ableism is commonplace. People use ableist language constantly. And victimizing disabled people is systemic. More than half of all police shootings are of disabled people. All so disheartening.
Case in point: If anyone GAF about #disabled people, Cuomo would have been forced to resign months ago over what he did to disabled and elderly people. And Trump's abuse of a #disabled reporter was a clear indicator of his #ableism, bigotry and saying the quiet parts out loud.
Then elected Democrats mocked people who can't hold a glass of water in videos on Twitter. Only one who had--AOC-- listened to us and took hers down and apologized and said she'd learned from us. Like racism and sexism, you can't be a little #ableist. If you do it, you think it.
There are 81M #disabled Americans. Literally THE largest minority group. And one that is incredibly diverse. You are only temporarily non-disabled, as many of us can tell you. So start by reading David's thread & cutting #ableist language out of your lexicon--"lame,""m*r*n," etc
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