Thread by @mssinenomine

The problem with MAiD is not just about poverty and if you don't understand that you keep spreading that you are playing into the Liberal Party of Canada's hands - why tf do you think they have this national benefits long drawn out dog and pony mystery show going on?

Also, I have crips in my DMs who have housing and have sufficient income.
But they are hit by ableism in different ways.
I know you want to make this all about things you ableds can relate to - or that are your situation if you're disabled. But it's wrong.

Analysis is not a laundry list.

Do you all think affirmative action solved racism?
Do you not understand why racialized people fear police regardless of their class?

OK, so if you do, then try to think bigger with ableism.

You all are out here acting as simplistic as the NDP. How close are some of you to coming up with a rebate to fix MAiD.

It's so frustrating watching these tweets go viral.

'MAiD is because food bank.'

OK grade five public speaking contest.

Lowest hanging fruit is going to end up with more charity & bs takes like Picard's.
Why are disabled people poor?
Why is it tolerated in this society?
Why is our healthcare not created let alone covered?
Why is there no housing we can get into- never mind fcking cost of it?

You think these things are all just oopses?
You think that it was all an accident? Oversight?
The why is where we fight.

The manifestations and consequences of the why are magnitudes of harm - levels and layers of it. But the why is the part that you have to grasp.

No one needs to explain poverty & its effects on me. But I'm not prepared to leave any crip behind. I'm not prepared to leave ableism in place. I'm not using MAiD as 'leverage' to up benefits. Yes we need to raise the rates - or guaranteed income - fights overlap but are not same

Non-disabled people are poor too.
No one is offering them MAiD - yet.

The ableism is key not just to the oppression of disabled people but it is actually important to dismantling other oppressions and preventing them from creating new 'others.'

Why are we forcing people into nursing homes when we know people are offing themselves via MAiD because they fear being forced into those nursing homes?

Why are people literally choosing to die rather than wear a diaper or have someone help them pee for few minutes a day?

Why did this country turn a father who murdered his own daughter into a folk hero?
Why did so many facts of her life and the case get successfully suppressed?
Why have disabled people been fighting people like Singer and his terrible offspring alone since forever?

You think raising the rates is going to fix this?
This is Canada. Maclean's magazine 1994.

https://twitter.com/mssinenomine/status/1234291504488665088?s=20&t=BnvCIxM_NHQQkkadxDYalg

If people who are not familiar and haven't been working on MAiD want to support, one really good way would be to talk about ableism - all of it - the everyday ableism, the history of it, the myriad of ways it presents in our society. That would be a huge help.

Threads about medical ableism would be very helpful.
Likewise housing.
Also really needed are threads about how ableism intersects with other oppressions. Just add hashtag #MAiD if possible. Because opposition to MAiD is about those things. About all of it.

If you are disabled and poor, one thing I'd really appreciate more documentation on is how the system restricts and policies you and limits your autonomy.

The bottom line is they want to entirely redirect this to have a discussion about poverty - skeptical that they plan to do a single real thing to end it but they'll discuss it.
What they don't want is to discuss ableism.

And we must.

The thing about disability poverty & society co-signing along with it, is that unlike welfare (which is also way too low), it is not intended as a stop gap measure. The assumption of welfare is no one lives their whole lives in that level of poverty - some do but assumption is no

With disability poverty you have a situation where a science-based medicine physician that they entrust to make this judgment, says - this person can not participate in capitalist work force, ever. And they say - OK lifetime of destitution for you.

So the fact that society has continuously felt that was appropriate life sentence for some for being disabled - is a reflection of a deeper devaluing of disabled people and the way 'value' to a human is assigned in our society.

So the discussion must be about ableism.
Why are people left in pain?
Why do disabled people face such crushing isolation?

Why are we so staggeringly more likely to be victims of violence?
Why are we always made to feel in the way and like burdens?