what I find rather interesting is the implicit assumption that ableism is bad; like, yes, ok, this is obviously ableism, there's no debating this. but is it bad? isn't what's bad about it the potential actions which might be taken as a result of the hierarchical ranking?
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RT @biologistimo
I deleted this tweet because someone called me in on how “unintelligent” can also be ableist. Like all insults of intelligence, it reinforces sys…
https://twitter.com/biologistimo/status/1414063553137545217
never ceases to amaze me how easily people skip over that intermediate step, jumping directly from thinking that if one says "some things are better than others" they obviously also mean "bad things should be eliminated"
telling on the authoritarian eugenicist in themselves, no?
