it's not ableist to criticise royalty, royal traditions, etc, discuss interbreeding (though there are ways to be ableist in those discussions!)
but the way that Habsburg portrait is being waved round, like a naughty novelty toy, is kind of making it hard to tell who's safe for disfigured people and who's not
it -is- ableist to joke about disfigured people and use them as a cudgel, even if they're long dead BAD PEOPLE & the disfigurement was caused by a bad system they benefited from
because they don't see you linking disfigurement to character, but living disfigured people do
because they don't see you linking disfigurement to character, but living disfigured people do
genetic disfigurements do not discriminate
so stop using the fact that a bad person was disfigured once as an excuse to be disfiguremisic
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