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#ableism #leftist
Screenshot of a Twitter post from space dyke @femmina: There are a lot of ostensible "leftists" and "antifascists” whose knee-jerk response to the suggestion that they, say, not engage in fatphobia & ableism in the course of dunking on a Nazi really gives away that they have no actual idea how systems of oppression work. Follow up tweet from same user: All in people's mentions explaining the ~irony~ when the point is that you can't use the barbs of abusive systems to hurt people you don't like without buying in to and thus strengthening the system.
#ableism #leftist
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Shiri Bailem
Shiri Bailem
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i've had people call me (jewish) a Nazi for saying things like "mocking a disability isn't okay even if they are a Nazi"
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Raroun
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Well, regarding disablities:

I don't know if I should still write something like this nowadays - but so be it.
2-3 years ago I went by train and there was a person in a wheelchair without legs, who turned on everyone else.
I kept out of it, but when I got off I had to inevitably pass him and he he had also for me me a stupid saying in store.
I was really annoyed by him and asked him where he was going? to a dance contest?
*concerned silence*
He started to laugh and said that I was the only one who would take him seriously.
I see him 1-2 times a year at most, but a friendship has grown out of the situation :)

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Shiri Bailem
Shiri Bailem
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@Raroun I call that a lucky bit of chemistry. Also, just because someone isn't using saying ableist things doesn't mean they're being ableist... walking lightly around disabled people is also it's own form of ableism that gets really tiring.

And I'm not even sure your joke is what I was talking about since it was very direct and more a specific targeted jab that happened to reference their disability, you didn't even mark it as something shameful but rather just spouted an absurdity.

A prime example would be something like mocking the lisp of a Nazi. Sure, that person is a Nazi... but what about all the non-Nazis that you're also mocking at the same time?

@Raroun
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