I keep coming back to this. Ableism is just people not giving a fuck.

As I said to @lizardry.bsky.social a good while back... (It's a thread)

Often justified by an assumption that nobody actually really gives a fuck and anyone saying they do is just lying to try and gain some form of advantage 😞

My definition of privilege is the freedom to ignore something, and in that sense ableism is pure privilege. “I don’t have to think about your experience therefore you can’t make me” sums it up. Ableism rarely even rises to the level of conscious awareness, it’s just cultivated ignorance.

This includes Bluesky because ALT text on this platform doesn’t work for people with their phones set to large text. It won’t scroll, I can read the first and last words of a long ALT text.

I have spent the past many weeks begging activists to believe me about ableism. I thought we had all signed on to react to being called out but when it's neurodiversity people feel zero urgency and just refuse to believe they might have to actually unpack something and do work and that it's worth it

it’s also predicated on a falsehood: people engage in ableism assuming they will never become disabled, when in reality disability is not a question of “if,” it is a question of “when?”

I would disagree, if people simply didn't care then there wouldn't be any killings of disabled people. Bijan Ebrahimi's home was broken into, he was beaten with a baseball bat, dragged outside and set on fire. I don't think that would count as 'not giving a fuck'.

Writing a book about this atm