I have always been fond of music, especially when I’m feeling down. Now, I don’t think there’s enough popular songs about disability and how we struggle each day. But I stumbled across a song the other day that, while it’s not about disability, I’ve been listening to quite often when I feel like I failed somehow. When all that’s happening is really just me struggling and making it through another day, for better or for worse, I like to remind myself that I am perfectly incomplete, but I am good the way I am. I hope that maybe it helps you too.
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Hello fellow members of c/disabled. As already mentioned in a comment thread in this post, the mods created a short “Information Post” about Ableist Language on the site and the consequences of using said language. I would like for you to give us your input and feedback to the document. If you want anything to be included that feels like it’s missing, you can send me a DM on hexbear or comment under this comment. I would like to ask you all that the comments in this thread be kept short, as this is the megathread and I don’t want to clog it with too many administrative comments if possible. I will make sure to incorporate all feedback and input you have to the best of my ability. You can follow the changes through the document link: https://cryptpad.fr/doc/#/2/doc/edit/ XBOFfyoPSb0-l4vFySADdh+g/
Edit: I will be taking feedback in the next mega as well and post the link to the document again. Thank you again to everyone who already offered up feedback and input, I appreciate you taking the time to help make it better!
I would argue that in the example about use of medical terms used as insults, it might be worth mentioning that one of the reasons it is so problematic is because of the associated stigma and because it makes it out as if the reason a bad act is bad is because it is an act similar to someone who is ill. When you say someone who is doing evil has to be crazy, you are insinuating not only that the only reason to do bad is because you are sick, but also that disabled people are inherently connected to evil.
Thank you for the input! How do you like this as a modification?
That sounds ok to me.
ditto
Sorry, my bad, does it work now?
nyop
I changed the URL, does it work now?
Link has a space in it? It loads endlessly for me. removing the space or the " g/" part both give an invalid link
Try copying the spelled out link now, and delete the space between the two parts
yes, it works!
Gosh finally!
I still get the same erorr
Try copying the two parts of the link and delete the space between them
It would be very helpful if there was an explanation included for the mechanism that makes usage of the mentioned words ableist. I can not give a better explanation to this but a very simplified example would be:
It would be cool if there was an academic source on this mechanism.
It’s a lot to ask of any community to spell out exactly why certain things are bad for them, but unfortunately it is often the only way to get people to actually consider what you’re asking of them.
this is quite strange to me, all sighted people are temporarily blinded on a regular basis and often in physically unpleasant ways that we avoid when possible.
I think maybe we need to switch out “blinded by” with the example in the document “You’d have to be blind not to see it”, as we explained that “blinded by” is something that can be non-ableist in context, while the second example can’t be. Would that make it more understandable?
I’ll try to find an academic source tomorrow if I can, otherwise I think your two sentences are good additions that I’ve put into the document. Thank you very much for your input!