Eric Eggert
It’s always interesting to see who feels attacked when performative allyship is pointed out. Do I think people are on purpose performative? Maybe not always, maybe even rarely. But that’s a bias and people need to understand that.
When the people you want to be an ally for point out that your actions feel hollow and useless, then it is your place to listen and correct. It’s not their task to mitigate and put critique in a nice package.
Even well meaning peeps and orgs can do harm. Do better.
Eric Eggert
I think non-disabled people, even if they want to do the right thing, don’t know how all-encompassing disability discrimination is. They have the privilege to not encounter that discrimination every day. When it gets pointed out to them that they indeed could do things better or that there are societal issues, they see the loss of that privilege as a loss of a right. (1/2)
Eric Eggert
However, disabled people are limited in their human rights every day. Some less, some more. Your privilege to not see those discriminations does not overwrite their right to participate in an inclusive way. (2/2)
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