"Scolding non-disabled children for saying the r-slur is meaningless if you don’t also provide disabled children with unfettered access to the same education and community that other children receive(7). In the same way, not being called a slur at the doctor is meaningless if you can’t go to the doctor (or can’t control what happens at the doctor, as is the case of the many disabled people who don’t have the final say in their own healthcare)."
Absolutely, thank you for this piece. Wishing you and yours a lovely 2025.
Good piece. As somebody who moves in very different spaces from you, perhaps I can provide some insight.
The "resurgence" that I have seen seems to be merely for shock value, to "trigger" if you will. I haven't seen or heard the word used to refer to people with disabilities in years - it seems to be a slur used almost exclusively to refer to non-disabled people who are acting in a particularly stupid way or saying something especially dumb.
It's also a reaction to the general "woke" mania around word-policing that took hold in the last decade and is finally going away, especially with platforms like X (a trash heap, but needed) and Substack. If you want to understand why people are becoming so callous, you really need to be able to wrap your head around this tone/word/attitude policing and it's enormous runaway overuse during Covid. That ink ran so bad that at least half the population was crowing about the other half potentially dying because they weren't masking. Talk about blurring the lines between word violence and physical violence.....sheesh.
When you say something against masking, and not only are you banned from social media, but your haters can literally wish you dead openly and *not* get banned, you start to get some real callouses developing. I am certainly no exception here - I will say all sorts of things and not care much anymore, because I have a strong sense that the people tone-policing me literally want me dead anyway, because I happen to be a conservative....that will radicalize anyone, no? So sure, I will use strong words, but the only point is to make a shitlib lose their mind.
I think people with disabilities should be protected and loved. It informs my pro-life viewpoints - with the advent of pre-birth genetic testing, I believe there is now a concerted effort to genocide people who would otherwise be born with Down's syndrome or other common disabilities, via the expediency of abortion. My cousin is Down's, she's an amazing person, and the idea that if she had been conceived 20 years later meant she would have been cut up in the womb and sucked out with a vacuum fills my eyes with tears. The idea that the same shitlibs who will tone-police someone for using the "r" word, will then turn around and celebrate when one of those same people is murdered as a tiny baby is so mind-bogglingly demonic that it defies reasonable description. Now *that* type of violence is a real, concrete separation of word and deed.
Very sad to hear about your sister's experience and how hard it must have been on you. I've used the r-dis many times. Always purely performative, or self-therapeutic in the sense of rejecting responsibility for someone or something that was inconvenient at the time to me and my buzz. (Or plans for such.) Never with genuine hate, tho. We all try to shield ourselves and shape our realities I guess. And kids who have no power themselves are always eager to find someone with less to give them the illusion of agency. Anyway, good work as usual.
"Scolding non-disabled children for saying the r-slur is meaningless if you don’t also provide disabled children with unfettered access to the same education and community that other children receive(7). In the same way, not being called a slur at the doctor is meaningless if you can’t go to the doctor (or can’t control what happens at the doctor, as is the case of the many disabled people who don’t have the final say in their own healthcare)."
Absolutely, thank you for this piece. Wishing you and yours a lovely 2025.
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Really excellent analysis and piece. Thank you!!
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Good piece. As somebody who moves in very different spaces from you, perhaps I can provide some insight.
The "resurgence" that I have seen seems to be merely for shock value, to "trigger" if you will. I haven't seen or heard the word used to refer to people with disabilities in years - it seems to be a slur used almost exclusively to refer to non-disabled people who are acting in a particularly stupid way or saying something especially dumb.
It's also a reaction to the general "woke" mania around word-policing that took hold in the last decade and is finally going away, especially with platforms like X (a trash heap, but needed) and Substack. If you want to understand why people are becoming so callous, you really need to be able to wrap your head around this tone/word/attitude policing and it's enormous runaway overuse during Covid. That ink ran so bad that at least half the population was crowing about the other half potentially dying because they weren't masking. Talk about blurring the lines between word violence and physical violence.....sheesh.
When you say something against masking, and not only are you banned from social media, but your haters can literally wish you dead openly and *not* get banned, you start to get some real callouses developing. I am certainly no exception here - I will say all sorts of things and not care much anymore, because I have a strong sense that the people tone-policing me literally want me dead anyway, because I happen to be a conservative....that will radicalize anyone, no? So sure, I will use strong words, but the only point is to make a shitlib lose their mind.
I think people with disabilities should be protected and loved. It informs my pro-life viewpoints - with the advent of pre-birth genetic testing, I believe there is now a concerted effort to genocide people who would otherwise be born with Down's syndrome or other common disabilities, via the expediency of abortion. My cousin is Down's, she's an amazing person, and the idea that if she had been conceived 20 years later meant she would have been cut up in the womb and sucked out with a vacuum fills my eyes with tears. The idea that the same shitlibs who will tone-police someone for using the "r" word, will then turn around and celebrate when one of those same people is murdered as a tiny baby is so mind-bogglingly demonic that it defies reasonable description. Now *that* type of violence is a real, concrete separation of word and deed.
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Very sad to hear about your sister's experience and how hard it must have been on you. I've used the r-dis many times. Always purely performative, or self-therapeutic in the sense of rejecting responsibility for someone or something that was inconvenient at the time to me and my buzz. (Or plans for such.) Never with genuine hate, tho. We all try to shield ourselves and shape our realities I guess. And kids who have no power themselves are always eager to find someone with less to give them the illusion of agency. Anyway, good work as usual.
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