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   mordantivore@kolektiva.social's status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 23:54:51 JST Mordantivore

   people will go on at lengthy making excellent anarchistic analyses here and then trip over every rake in their zest to be ableist & use bigoted language, it's really quite something

   it shows that y'all do not care about the disabled, that we do not factor into your revolutions & utopias, that we, frankly, do not exist in your world & that you'll continue to leave us to die because accommodating us is too inconvenient for your fantasies

   Mastodon very much feels like where all the older, recalcitrant anarchists went after Twitter started choking on naziism & musk but they didn't want to be inclusive & develop a new culture.

   Y'all fought tooth & nail over CWs and image descriptions, then seemed to have dropped them & the ableist language & concepts continue, strangely. Y'all don't speak COVID but then talk about how unhappy y'all are with everything and the need to organize

   y'all aren't serious anarchists, many of you

   you're ableists killing your communities

   you'll get excited over superspreader events, disregard others traveling unnecessarily, completely & conveniently fail to ask about COVID precautions people are taking in their activities, & generally act in line with the fascist back to 2019 fantasy

   It really is disgusting

   Tumblr anarchists are somewhat better about this & the remaining twitter ones were much better about speaking COVID (because that's where the bulk of the disability justice community lives)

   Mastodon has the most cursed vibes of radlibness

   I keep hoping to find groups of anarchists like the twitter mask blocs that take COVID deadly seriously and center it for everything they do

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     Wherz Demloots (makberberovic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 23:54:48 JST Wherz Demloots

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     @Mordantivore What is the relationship between using ableist language and taking covid seriously? Or are those separate criticisms?

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     mordantivore@kolektiva.social's status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 00:04:48 JST Mordantivore

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     • Wherz Demloots

     @MakBerberovic Someone who refuses to stop saying ableist language sees disabled people & our history of being murdered through social policy or direct killings as immaterial & unrelated to the struggle for autonomy

     Someone who keeps using "stupid" tells me that they haven't listened to disability justice advocates & the disabled despite the past 2-3 years of those same advocates explaining that being a plague rat/fascist is not a result of mental capacity/cognition/intellectual (dis)ability but willful choice

     If people haven't been listening to the disabled for the past 2-3 years when COVID has been the leading killer of us & the leading killer of humans in general globally (as it causes heart failure, cancer, diabetes, in addition to acute phase deaths), then it shows that those inattentive people do not actually center the marginalized & are extremely likely to be complicit in our deaths

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     Wherz Demloots (makberberovic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 04:51:43 JST Wherz Demloots

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     @Mordantivore
     Is it wrong for me to be ableist against people who are incapable of engaging in ethical behavior, empathy, and empiricism? Like, you know, rightoids.

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     mordantivore@kolektiva.social's status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 04:55:55 JST Mordantivore

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     • Wherz Demloots

     @MakBerberovic extremely wrong yes

     be better than them

     you can find whole lists of words to insult people without being ableist

     insipid is a particularly good one

     fascists choose to be fascists, they choose to propagate harm. They're fully capable of being better people but they actively work against that.

     if you don't want to be like them, then *do not be like them*