#tw: ableist slurs

[russilton]

Yuki needs to be held to account for that slur swiftly and immediately, as an autistic person I feel sick and more than a little heartbroken to see it come from a man who Should👏Know👏Better👏

HOWEVER- people bringing attention to this, keep in the front of your mind are you treating Yuki the same way you treat Max?

For those New to the sport Max called another driver a M****l R***** on radio in a session in 2020. It was the second time he’d used the slur, and despite calls for him to apologise he refused to do so. In fact many people defended him and attributed it to him just being Dutch. Trust me, the disabled people around you fucking notice, and it hurts.

Do not let racial bias make you treat Yuki today with more severity than you treated Max. Hold them both to account till these privileged assholes learn better.

[andthespidersfrommars]

I know the shadow and bone netflix show is packed with shitty stuff and dwelling on stupid little details is futile, but there’s a small rewording that really bothers me for some reason, and it’s in the “bathroom scene” when inej asks kaz what his tell is.

in the book, he says “I’m a cripple. no one bothers to look for the others.” but in the show, instead of saying cripple, he says “my limp, my cane.” and ik that’s probably just because the show writers were worried about ~cultural sensitivity~ and didn’t think dropping the slur would be a good idea, especially not from the mouth of a man who is not disabled, but it gets to me anyway. I’ve been surrounded by that word a lot growing up—I’ve seen my mother being called crippled (along with retarted and way worse) plenty of times, including by my own father, had friends and family make jokes containing that word if they got hurt or something, and seen it used wrong in media and the like.

when kaz said “when people see a cripple crossing the street, leaning on his cane, what do they feel?” I got that. when the ice court prisoner was saying “hey cripple. crip” but kaz was like he needn’t have bothered, he knew the word in plenty of languages, I felt that. so when he says “I’m a cripple, no one bothers to look for the others.” it’s not just that he’s saying a broken leg and walking stick=weakness in a way I think a lot of able bodied people think it is. he also has this understanding of how people see him because of his disability that goes way beyond the physical disability that’s super important to me. and idk, his ‘tell’ being reduced to just the limp and his mobility aid (physical impairment and stick he needs to walk with instead of a deeply ingrained cultural notion that people undermine him because of) shows in another smaller way exactly how the show writers see kaz’s disability—edgy character trait with quirky cool accessory. I think it just reminds me of how much of kaz’s identity the show stripped away with having this 30 year old able bodied man playing him and I’m just so so angry. like they do not get him at all.

[queenlilithprime]

Let's not do this plz

I got a reblog earlier that was absolutely wild simply because I reblogged something else bringing awareness to someone's harassment. So guys lets... not do this!

Believe me when I say I have heard and faced worse, but it's never something I want to have in my notifications.

TW for Slurs, Threats, Harassment... None of it is great but it's below the cut.

[antiradqueer-karkat]

errrr lolz radqueer beiing ableist !!

[idiot-mushroom]

I’m not sure if the turtles know this or if anyone has already given you this idea, but rats have very bad eyesight - almost enough to be considered blind. For a short term but satisfying revenge they could cut Splinter’s whiskers off in sleep. He would literally be crippled for awhile.

donnie knew this information, but so did splinter, and splints has a way of hurting them, even if it isn’t physical.

[zebulontheplanet]

A vent does not excuse you to use ableist language. End. Of. Story.

[compassionatereminders]

And when I was like "hello? Disability benefits? No education or career? Permanently institutionalized? How am I supposed to keep my disability a secret?" she legit went "well if you gotta mention it you should say aspergers instead of autistic so they know you're not retarded"... 🤢😭

[thatsadsmallchild]

Just so we're all 100% clear on this. R***** is an ableist slur. We should not be tolerating anyone saying it.

I'm so fucking tired of having to say this literally everyone.

[the-firefly-jar-system]

“grippy sock jail/vacation”, “i’m so ocd!”, “my ex was such a narcissist/psychopath/sociopath”, “delulu!”, “is it acoustic?”, “being silly goofy manic”, “lobotomycore”, “you’re giving me ptsd!”, “i’m such a psycho lol”, “me and my split personality!”, “that’s so cr*ppled”, “you’re so bipolar”, “how’s that extra chromosome?”, “barcode/cutting board/wrist check!”

shut the fuck up. like actually shut it.

[pt: shut the fuck up. like actually shut it. /end pt]

(specifically referring to people who don’t have the disorders/experiences they’re joking about)

[aftonsparv-bugzz]

:33 < idont care if youre anti or pro endo, if you use "delusional" or "p*ychotic" as an insult towards ANY system, YOU ARE ABELIST. you are singlehandedly showing off youdo NOT care for people with psychosis, youdo NOT care for people on the schizospectrum, and you are ABELIST TOWARDS YOUR OWN COMMUNITY. JUST BECAUSE THEY HAD ALTERS AS A DELUSION OF THEIRS, does NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO BE ABELIST TO THEM. my god, just leave delusional folks alone if youre gonna be uneducated and reality check them.

[satyrradio]

me when I'm definitely not an aspenfrosten burner account. actually pathetic

[cryptid-aac]

Least ableist radqueer

[transspeciesguy]

you're actually crazy dude. i'm neurodivergent, visually impaired, and physically disabled, and also LGBTQ, so i get to have a say in this.

transabled is NOT OKAY. you shouldn't WANT to be disabled, it isn't fun at all, for one, and two, it is BLATANTLY abelist.

i don't understand how you, someone who IS disabled, can stand with abelists.

-🌃

I hate ableists. Real ableists. The ones who tell me my disabilities aren't real, the ones who stare at me on the street and give me dirty looks. The ones who act like I'm crazy for stimming in public. The ones who constantly make "jokes" about how horrible my life is and how they would "kill themself if they ever had to live like me", the ones who call me "vegetable" and "cripple".

Not the (heavy air quotes) "ableists" who just fucking have atypical dysphoria. Not the "ableists" who are just trying to be themself and navigate the mortal life.

[wildfeather5002]

Disabled folks of Tumblr, I need your advice!

I saw someone using ableist slurs and phrases, so I called them out for it, but I'm worried I said something ableist without intending to do so.

[Edit] Here's more context: the whole argument started when I (politely) criticized some other person defending an oppressive cult religion that preaches about eternal damnation. Then another person came, started mocking me and other people for criticizing oppressive beliefs about eternal damnation.

This is what I said: You say I'm the bigot here? That's pretty fucking rich coming from someone using ableist slurs ('degenerate', it's also a nazi dogwhistle by the way) and complaining about 'people in their 30's - 40's living in their parents' basements getting triggered over everything', which is a harmful stereotype used to mock disabled people. If I were you, I wouldn't be talking about bigotry before fixing my faults.

This was their response to me calling them out: “Ableist slurs”? “Nazi dogwhistle”? “Harmful stereotypes used to mock disabled people”? I can call behavior such as bullying and harassing children online for what it is: degeneracy. I never said a word about disabled people—how fucking dare you correlate people living in their parents basements to disabled people, what is wrong with you? I would have never made that connection or came to that conclusion for myself because only an ableist person would.

I'm a disabled person (autism, adhd and mental health issues), and I was disturbed by their comment about "adults living in their parents' basements", because that phrase has been used to insult disabled people around me.

The said person was also using "mentally ill" as an insult before I interacted with them.

So, any thoughts?

[intersectionalpraxis]

What a piece of shit this person is. You did block me before I had a chance to see your page, but I can anticipate what I'd see. I'm also half Persian -I have it in my bio, but I'm sure the zionist brainwashing has rotted your comprehension skills.

Allies to Palestinian liberation across ethnicities, religious backgrounds, and more -those on the side of saying Free Palestine until it is backwards are on the right side of humanity. For those who haven't blocked this thing above, please do. Block and don't engage please.

Long live the resistance.

[nando161mando]