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Mar 8 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
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For @Newsweek ✍️

Elon Musk's Cruel Mockery of a Disabled Worker Exposes an Ugly Truth About America🇺🇸♿️
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newsweek.com/elon-musks-cru… @ibdgirl76 @iamharaldur @TaylorLorenz @maiasz @daveweigel @elonmusk @YoungVoicesOrg @wil_da_beast630 @chadfelixg @edzitron #disability
Thank you to the amazing @bungarsargon for letting me write about this topic🙏
tale of @elonmusk v @iamharaldur is a public version of an experience countless disabled Americans have suffered when working or trying to find employment.

Disabled people are deprived of the opportunity to work not because they lack talent but because of the Bigotry of No… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@iamharaldur
famous Icelandic designer & creator of Ueno,
sold to Twitter in 2021.

He did so cuz he suffers from muscular dystrophy, slowly robbing him of control of his muscles

So before losing total function, he wanted to work for a company on a mission he believed in
Halli is internationally respected,
if he w/ a visible & documented disability can be publicly bullied

What chance do most disableds w/ lower-class living standards & invisible illnesses stand in private by employers who see them as liabilities or lazy fakers?🤔 #disabled
There is a huge discrimination problem in America:
It's the well versus the unwell.

Despite laws and regulations promoting equality, discrimination against the disabled remains pervasive, especially in the workplace.
America desperately needs a workplace culture change on this issue😲

Shame on the Doge King & all those blessed by fortune to live as cruel Ebeneezers against those whose only crime is living w/out health💰🦹‍♂️

newsweek.com/elon-musks-cru… #politics @OrdinaryGamers @MattBinder
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Peter Pischke-Friendly Neighborhood Journo Profile picture
Mar 8
that's the crazy thing,

the same day Elon had a big interview with Morgan Stanley to tout Twitter's growth, he got in a spat attacking a disabled employee w/ muscular dystrophy

Ive been generally positive with the direction of Twitter despite specific issues, but sometimes🤦
i have MAJOR criticisms of Elon;

but I also appreciate his dedication to free speech principles

& I'm grateful how he significantly curtailed some of the shadow bans & let people back on the app
DM's are fundamentally broken, which has hit me hard for work;

Weird outages all the time; strange UI changes; top & latest mean the same thing; Following & For You are neither quite there; & he's just go so many gosh darn reply guys
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Mar 7
My goals for my career since disability are just 2

Be a positive difference to the world

Make a living so I can have a family of my own

Everything I've learned is that society will not bend an iota to enable people like me to make a productive difference & be self sufficient
I'm a very disabled man,

I don't want welfare,
I want to work,

But if no one is willing to treat the disabled fairly & give us a chance to work, or allow us the means to survive

What the hell are we supposed to do

Go find a quiet place to die!?😤 #Disability #ProLife
Thank goodness for freelance journalism cuz I'd be totally screwed without it

My income & lifestyle is difficult, but I have more than many others in similar situations

For which I am very grateful for, but it really does feel like I'm working against a stacked deck some days🤷
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Mar 7
Disability is a really tough thing when it comes to the workplace and hiring

Especially in a high demand environment, I totally understand that

But I feel a lot of employers are missing out on talent because they are afraid they cannot deal with disabled employee fairly
there are so many tools available that unless it's a physical job I see no reason not to take a chance on a disabled person

longtime disabled workers I know are some of the most reliable & dedicated workers around

Help improve work culture & put work values into perspective
feeling of many employers in the US is that the legal risk and inability to fire a bad disabled employee negates any chance to consider hiring a disabled worker

Or unless a disabled applicant has as many years of experience as a able bodied one they aren't worth taking a chance
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Mar 7
I hate to use this term, but what Elon tweeted about @iamharaldur

this kinda is triggering for me

Cuz I've had similar attacks from employers for my own disabilities & it's always in around about way for saying my disability was too inconvenient to keep me around
Perhaps Elon is right and this guy is a terrible employee or Elon is lying

Not as of Elon is the most honest guy in the world

Whatever true story is,

isn't good to go out there & say this guy isn't really disabled but lazy to an audience of several million Twitter followers
I don't know who is telling the truth here,

but what I do know is a lot of disabled people have heard this sort of justification before for why they couldn't be kept around
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Mar 7
it's been odd; my grandma being in so much pain, is now regularly apologizing to me for not taking my pain more seriously;

totally unnecessary; cuz 1 I don't think she was ever that dismissive; & 2 pain is so subjective; you don't know what you can handle til you go through it
what I tell people is that suffering is not a contest;

U don't have to hurt or suffer more than someone else for your pain to matter;
human nature to play the "who is really suffering game" but it's illogical & unnecessary;

human body is so complex, & situations so unique;

one person's experience with a specific diagnosis may have it much easier or harder than another person diagnosed with the same
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Mar 5
for prescribers major problem is that though DEA have cut down some restrictions & opened up prescribing it still carries a high amount of risk for future DEA involvement

openings turn into traps; trying to get physicians to prescribe, screw nytimes.com/2023/03/03/us/…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
when the federal gov says U can prescribe something but still have to jump through hoops it establishes this is dangerous to handle

even if U reduce restrictions in terms of words on paper; if you don't reduce the legal risk to prescribers, the change isn't going to change much
Sure, the DEA may say U can now prescribe bupe to ur patients at ur addiction treatment center; but if it also means more future visits from the DEA; then, for most prescribers, it's a big pass
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