[3 different thumbnails given to you randomly. All have words in yellow text. One says “explaining ableist language” another has “intro to ableist language” and one says “what is ableist language?”. They are all next to the disabled pride flag and on a digital art wooden background with a grey table in the bottom left corner]

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    I get what the point of the video is and I agree with a lot of it, but the way it’s presented here seems like the person speaking is offended by anyone who doesn’t have some kind of debilitating underlying condition even existing.

    I was with them up to the point where they said anyone ever even just being acknowledged for any kind of achievement is somehow ableist and offensive and then the whole thing seems to kind of go further off the rails from there

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      22 hours ago

      When commentary itself does not embed its main point within it, it becomes part of the problem it is addressing. The entire point, as far as I can tell, here, is that being careless with words can actually cause others harm. Shifting the narrative to the rewards gained by achievement is where the comment goes astray. It would help me stay focused on the main point of, instead of telling me how praise or for performance is somehow bad, the commentary described the reverse, perhaps helping me to understand a little better, the ways in which the struggle is often overlooked, and the rewards not given in a way that benefits the whole. It is short-sighted to give rewards based on excellence, especially if those rewards are necessary for survival. My abilities will wane over time. Does that make me, then, less deserving of the ability to simply survive? The main point of dehumanizing language still holds, though. It stares us in the face everyday. They are not “HOMELESS people”. They are “people who…(sleep rough, live on the street, have been thrown away by society, etc.)” It is important to remember the humanity, and to start there. We are all born helpless, and die helpless. Everybody, at some point, relies on others. Dismissing those who need help is anti human in its entirety.