Social media is the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli and must be fed a constant stream of human sacrifices. How would even know if we were alive if we didn’t see the victims’ arterial blood spurting across our computer screens? Today the heart was being ripped out of MrBeast (although he’ll probably survive). Born Jimmy Donaldson, MrBeast is a crazy popular YouTuber who has 131 million subscribers and feeds them a steady stream of stunts and nonsense (one video had him counting to 100,000,
My good friend has some lifelong chronic illnesses and I’ve heard her say this (that she is often hurt by the attitude that society seems to see disabled people as a problem to be fixed or disposable.)
But I don’t think she’d turn down a cure for her illnesses and spends lots of time trying to manage her pain. At the same time though she wants to be seen as a complete and capable person *now* even if she never better. I think for her it’s more about how she’s seen & treated than whether she would reject a cure.
TLDR: I get where the disability criticism is coming from, but like most things I think that conversation has a lot of nuance, and Twitter does not.
If I can indulge in some "identity politics": of my own: as a survivor of childhood trauma, if I heard anyone denying that I'd be better off healing from it, I would find that quite offensive.
Two thoughts, this being my first: I sometimes grapple with the ableist impulse as a person with autism/autistic person/whatever the label is. Those of us who are high functioning might react as if we don’t need to be cured, sure. Yet when it comes to those who are low functioning (and not everyone likes use of this “functioning” word), wouldn’t we want to help...the same way we would think curing blindness is altogether good? Instead, those who don’t have a condition think they are representing those who do. I could be wrong, but the ones making the most noise against this are people who can already see (mostly).
Second thought: I wonder what the reaction would be if a part of the internet liked that person and was quick to defend their desire for a cure. That Buzzfeed piece on Jesus enabling alcoholics should be gold.
So do or don't let your disability define you? My dad slowly blinded himself by spending most of his free time engrossed in great tomes. I wish he'd been better at parenting than reading, but even more I wish he hadn't gone blind, had two strokes and spent the end of his life as a helpless Parkinson's dementia patient.
Not only are fewer people employing the art of critical thinking, but increasingly they're moderating their "reactions" to events based upon what their follows or followers believe.
My good friend has some lifelong chronic illnesses and I’ve heard her say this (that she is often hurt by the attitude that society seems to see disabled people as a problem to be fixed or disposable.)
But I don’t think she’d turn down a cure for her illnesses and spends lots of time trying to manage her pain. At the same time though she wants to be seen as a complete and capable person *now* even if she never better. I think for her it’s more about how she’s seen & treated than whether she would reject a cure.
TLDR: I get where the disability criticism is coming from, but like most things I think that conversation has a lot of nuance, and Twitter does not.
I respond to, "Ok Boomer" with, "Ok Doomer". Works every time.
If I can indulge in some "identity politics": of my own: as a survivor of childhood trauma, if I heard anyone denying that I'd be better off healing from it, I would find that quite offensive.
Two thoughts, this being my first: I sometimes grapple with the ableist impulse as a person with autism/autistic person/whatever the label is. Those of us who are high functioning might react as if we don’t need to be cured, sure. Yet when it comes to those who are low functioning (and not everyone likes use of this “functioning” word), wouldn’t we want to help...the same way we would think curing blindness is altogether good? Instead, those who don’t have a condition think they are representing those who do. I could be wrong, but the ones making the most noise against this are people who can already see (mostly).
Second thought: I wonder what the reaction would be if a part of the internet liked that person and was quick to defend their desire for a cure. That Buzzfeed piece on Jesus enabling alcoholics should be gold.
So do or don't let your disability define you? My dad slowly blinded himself by spending most of his free time engrossed in great tomes. I wish he'd been better at parenting than reading, but even more I wish he hadn't gone blind, had two strokes and spent the end of his life as a helpless Parkinson's dementia patient.
"Jesus is lucky you weren’t around when he was healing lepers. “Water to wine, Jesus? Sounds like you’re enabling alcoholics!”"
I laughed so hard, I forgave at least two of your bad food takes.
Thank you!
Not only are fewer people employing the art of critical thinking, but increasingly they're moderating their "reactions" to events based upon what their follows or followers believe.