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trouble ([personal profile] trouble) wrote2011-04-20 19:30

Dear so-called progressives: I hate you

Hey so-called Progressives: Disability is not your fucking punch line and I hate you.

Wherein Wonkette dedicates a whole fucking post to mocking Trig Palin for being "r#tarded", because it's very progressive to mock children with disabilities! Seriously, it's a disgusting article. Read this description at adage instead.

(Oh, but see, they're mocking SARAH PALIN for "using her son as a political prop". Which is why they put up a post that implies that Trig is the product of incest between his father and sister, say that children with intellectual disabilities don't dream, and implied that he was born disabled because his mother drank while she was pregnant. Not, you know, just saying "This shit where Palin uses her son as a political prop is wrong." No no, they're mocking her by making him - and all children with disabilities by extension - the butt of the joke. Ha ha ha ha. ha ha. So creative. Gosh, those progressive sure are on the side of people with disabilities, right?)

And, of course:
Lady Gaga Calls Madonna Plagiarism charges r#tarded.

GOSH I'M SO GLAD THAT I HAVE PROGRESSIVES ON MY SIDE. It's been mere hours since I was last told that ableism wasn't a real thing because people with disabilities are treated with "kid gloves".
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[personal profile] slave2tehtink 2011-04-21 02:07 (UTC)(link)
Is there...a link for this blog? Because it is relevant to my interests and I would like to subscribe to the newsletter...
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[personal profile] capriuni 2011-04-21 02:28 (UTC)(link)
Oops. I should have posted it, but I'm bleary-brained. Here: Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream (the straight url: http://platosnightmare-aesopsdream.blogspot.com/).

I just started it a little over a week ago, specifically in time for BADD. But I want to get a handful of posts up ahead of time. There are three up there, now. I was going to start a new one today, but I got sidetracked by a "quickie project" (yeah, right). It will be on the story "Tom Thumb."

By "newsletter," do you mean "feed"? there is an rss link up on the site.