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Reject the order. Build the ladder. Fight the Monster.

It posits that experiences outside the margin, as defined by self, simply do not exist. Because if it can't have cleanliness, it can't have order. And if it can't have order, it can't have peace. And if it can't have peace, it's gonna have to fucking kill what's disturbing it.

It instead favors a hierarchical view of the world — one of neat, distinct categories that does *not* represent the world we live in. In which ableism is not a structural ill, but momentary lapses of judgment or an errant word — not an attitude towards disability. Like racism.

It's this I'd argue is the white supremacist shift: bad faith actors w/ no belief in the impact of words corrupt them, naive people of upper classes, willingly & not, believe that representation, while both agree the mentally marginalized can't be trusted to define themselves.

There is no doubt it is the accurate posture to say that words have an impact & there is always work to be done in order to ensure we are according the most care with our language, but not to the point it regularly stigmatizes those with these conditions.

Imagine how maddening it must be, not only to suffer various mental conditions, but to then have placed upon you the responsibility for representing them in a way most palatable to your audience, because lord knows that's how they manifest 😑 The sheer entitlement to even ask.

Boxes of ableism so I know who the bad people are, even though many of the people using a word like, "crazy" are, in a very real sense, describing their *own* mental experiences with language available to them, & sometimes in language clearer than they were pathologized with.

It is a mission to erase difference, & it's got many foot soldiers. So you can't have ADHD or autism — "everybody feels like that!" You can't describe your trans experience in a way slightly deviant from others I've heard. Even if I learn a new world, the new world NEEDS BOXES.

Pursuing any irrational legislative act, any nonsensical form of rhetoric, co-opting any movement, diluting any word, appropriating any hair style/culture, killing any proposition to the benefit of others because of an ironclad commitment to a simple maxim: Protect the Monster.