Thread by @shengokai

You know that meme with the swords and the smug looking dude that's all "what leftist take would get this response from leftists?"

This one is mine.

https://twitter.com/chaoticgaythey/status/1402482890609397761

To this, I would add the following: too fucking many leftists are comfortable with the inaccessibility of their "radical" spaces and fuck is it disgusting. Especially when they brand themselves as "inclusive."

Inclusive of what? Neurotypical, able-bodied radicals?

Further, leftist analysis that reduces ableism to a class problem misses the whole fucking point. Your class revolution might resolve some economic burdens, which is awesome, but it will not make for a more accessible society unless you consider ableism beyond a class framework.

Sure, capitalism makes disabled life that much harder, but have you considered that your anti-capitalist utopia would inherit the structures of ableism that organize your current cultural and social situation, if you don't think to include disabled voices in your revolution?

In short, the revolution will be accessible or it will be bullshit.

Right now, there's so much ableist bullshit in leftist spaces that we won't need to throw bodies on the machines to stop them: we can just dump the ableist bullshit on the machines for the same effect.