I didn't really want to get into it in this thread, so I responded to the initial comment with a light-hearted joke about killing slave owners (well, it's a joke but slave owners did deserve to be killed of course). However, the underlying implication in that comment (and also in yours I think) that living with disability is a fate worse than death did bother me and does IMO express a very normalized form of ableism.

I want to make sure to be 100% clear that I am not accusing you or @deforestgump@hexbear.net of being malicious here. As I said, this notion is normalized and structurally integrated into most societies today. I just wanted to make this comment because I felt that it was important to point out. Disability isn't a punishment that's greater than death (and the idea that it is has been used to enable genocide - though again, I don't mean to accuse you of this of course). Disabled people are still alive and their lives have equal worth to those of people who have no disabilities (although it's more proper to say no disabilities so far, since many disabled people are disabled by circumstance and not birth).

I love that image by the way, it gets me every time. i-cant

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

god damn it this one gets me good every time