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Reminder that if you bring ableism into this instance you can fuck right off (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by Dort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/effort@hexbear.net

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I probably shouldn't be making this post. I hate getting involved struggle session highschool drama shit and I won't even point to specific evidence because frankly this shit depresses me. But here goes:

This might be a "wtf are you ranting about, Owl?" moment but there are some serious reactionary vibes in this place sometimes. Maybe it's a holdover from the dirtbag leftist era, I don't know, but it's gross. I see it trying to worm its way in here and it's a bad sign

If you ever catch yourself using the kind of shitty othering and ableism you'd see on stupidpol or a 2016 cringe compilation, go do some self crit or fuck right off

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[–] Poutine@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

I don't know if this post is about a particular explicit incident, but the constant baseline of casual ableism here is quite offputting at times. Everyone should be looking at the ableist terms in their own everyday parlance and excising them, as a first step. Consider why these words came into use as put-downs.

I have seen users here reject this suggestion offhandedly multiple times because it's "too hard" (all things require effort, and this is no harder than switching pronouns and grammatical gender when someone you know transitions) and "the words' meanings have changed". In the 1990s, the word "gay" almost went through this same process, yet we all agree that using "gay" as a put-down was bad. How is this any different?

I beg others to self-reflect.