Dear so-called progressives: I hate you

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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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Oh, yes, something else that is irritating me muchly about the Wonkette thing. I've noticed this on both sides of the political spectrum. I've noticed it in feminism. I've noticed it in other alliances I've tried to get involved in. And it's irritating regardless of the particular context.

Basically, the general pattern goes like this: If you're a member of X, you're not allowed to criticize anyone else in X, even for non-X-related reasons. And as a corollary, if you're a member of X and you do criticize something done by another member of X, you're suddenly no longer considered a true member of X.

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This is why I was kicked out of Feminism, and out of my political party.