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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".
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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This. I know. It's like they're all a band of warlocks, or something -- and by "Warlock" I don't mean: "male practioner of magic". I mean it in its first sense: "Deceiver -- twister of truth."
*Sigh* Where's Hermione when you need her?
It also occured to me, later, why this bigotry among big-name "Progressives" is such a mental disconnect for me. One time (my mother's birthday, my birthday, or Mother's Day), we were standing around the kitchen talking about the "life lesson" gifts we'd given each other. I thanked Mom for teaching me not to be intimidated by Authority, and not to accept their biased views of me.
And she said that my birth led her to be Progressive (actually, this was back in the 80s, so she said "Liberal," but you know...) -- that realizing that I'd grow up impaired, and having to deal with this world that biased against me, opened her eyes to the fact that society is not "A level playing field." And that nobody failed because they wanted to, or didn't try. So that's when she got involved in social justice movements, and the peace movement, and the environmental movements.
She was also a local leader in several orgs. in my hometown -- our Congressmen (Republican) would straighten up and clear his throat when he saw her enter a room. So her attitudes influenced the attitudes of other progressives in our groups (and also, friends and colleages would see this kid in a wheelchair coming along to protests and rallies, so the existance of Disability couldn't be erased very well), so from where I sat, it just looked like all such groups worked to be accessible.
But Mom died 20 years ago this year, and now, I'm seeing the wider world outside her influence, beyond the local tribal region, and I'm seeing what a small little island of Progressive subculture I grew up in, and it makes me feel lonely and old.