Wearing a mask before you enter a space you don't own is a gesture of respect, anti-ableism.
Wearing one upon request, without explanation or imposition of authority is non-ableist.
Demanding why/refusing is offensive, contemptuous, weaponizes privilege.
#COVID #BringBackMasks ⬇️
Like yielding, stopping sharply to avoid an accident, or driving a big truck, making others stop for you, & 🖕🏻 at pedestrians.
The last is an act of violence; you're endangering public health, and your own.
Pls RT & tag people in replies who do the last one!
#NameAndShame! 2/
I want to give words to what so many of us feel, show others they're not alone.
Show myself I'm not alone. 3/
At the same time, compassion is due to those with a real reason why they actually can't, who try the best they can to minimize risk to others.
Extenuating circumstances, lack of 💰, disability, etc. are not shameful.

Discouraging masks is eugenics; "Kill the weak!"
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A very relevant thread to show selfish, "That's YOUR problem!"-type rugged individualists.
Remember also that if you lose your job for being disabled beyond being an "undue burden" to your employer, you'll lose the insurance you have through them.

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This is disgusting, #CruelAndUnusual punishment - prisons are denying inmates meds that would help tremendously with addiction treatment, doesn't get them high.
The real stuff is very expensive on the black market; some get so desperate they turn to much more dangerous drugs. ⬇️
Instead, prisons erect unrealistic barriers to treatment, which gets inmates hurt, while making 💰 for smugglers. Those often ARE guards, or one can assume the others find ways to compensate them to 🙈🙉🙊.
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The underlying problem is that those in power accept... ⬇️
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We don't interrogate past, "Do they have ballots to select their government?" until the media wants an excuse to discredit them. 2/
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Great, now both of my parents & 2 brothers hate disabled people & want those at elevated risk of #COVID confined under indefinite house arrest.
That's what you mean when you say "Masks shouldn't be mandatory on public transit/in public places like stores." ⬇️
Yet when I told them about how @MIT prohibits even ASKING others to wear a mask, even if students are doing a group project & one of them is at elevated risk, their response was, "Hopefully if you tell the rest of them about your condition, they'll do the right thing." 2/ Will Riker from Start Trek TNG taken aback, caption, "W
NO, that's forcing disabled people to disclose private health information, & if they get there to find one lab partner is an incel III%er sociopath, that could kill or further disable an innocent person.
Can @HarvardLawNLG get on setting precedent that ADA requires masks? 3/
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@RepGarbarino, #ActuallyAutistic New Yorkers need you to #AbolishABA, which abuses autistic children, conditioning them to suffer in silence to accommodate the bigotry of allistic parents & authority figures.
The onus is on THEM to accommodate #neurodiversity!
"Allistic" is our preferred term for those who aren't punished by the majority for being different .
You may have heard the term "neurotypical"; that presupposes that you are the typical, better version, while we who are "neurodivergant" are implied inferior. 2/
If autistic people were the majority, the shoe could just as easily be on the other foot.
You've constructed the dominant social norms, laws, corporate policies, etc. based on assumptions that we don't quite fit so well; this mismatch causes our difference to be a disability. 3/
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You've constructed the dominant social norms, laws, corporate policies, etc. based on assumptions that we don't quite fit so well; this mismatch causes our difference to be a disability. 3/
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Next time an interviewer asks you to "Explain this gap on your resume," REGARDLESS of why, answer,
"I decline to answer that question in #solidarity with those whose reasons are none of your business, or reveal information that it's illegal to not-hire them for."
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#HotTake It's MOST important that those with more #privilege who would claim to not be racist/classist/ableist/misogynist/otherwise hostile to all marginalized groups refuse.
When YOU give an actual answer, YOU steal 💰 from all of them.
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People make mistakes, or get punished unjustly - YOU condemn them to poverty for life. 3/
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