Very impressive that you don't suffer the effects of a disability afflicting someone who isn't you. Maybe you can use this moral authority to call out those lazy paraplegics for sitting around so much next.
Unfriendly reminder that opposing a storm of ignorant, hateful, dehumanizing garbage spewed at people with Tourette Syndrome is not a special privilege anyone must earn by first serving whoever YOU care about. No one needs your blessing or permission to value our lives.
To summarize the difference between Twitter's reaction to Tourette Syndrome and Blusky's reaction:
Twitter: Staggering ableism, dehumanization, and calls for outright violence
Bluesky: Staggering ableism, dehumanization, and calls for outright violence from people who've been to grad school
Carrying on the adventures of Commisar Holt.
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Whereas today, "rape disabled people who cause a REAL Marginalized Person discomfort to death" is actually considered a problematic statement by some progressives. So there's progress, at least.
What's crazy is that this storm of lefty hatred towards the disabled, vile as it is, would have been FAR worse in the past. 12 years ago Benjanun Sriduangkaew/RequiresHate would have said John Davidson should be literally raped to death to the approving nods of the online social justice community.
"There sure are a lot of Nazis who suddenly care about the rights of people with Tourettes all of a sudden!" is just an announcement that even actual literal Nazis are somehow less hateful and dehumanizing towards disabled people than you.
If you showed them "The Elephant Man" half the people mad at John Davidson would think the mob that attacks Merrick are the good guys and the other half would think "it's sad but you can't blame them for not wanting hideous freaks walking the streets where someone might see."
The mob going after John Davidson is our ten thousandth example of how "intersectionality" has never been for neurodivergent people and never will be. "Social justice's" relationship with us is purely predatory and parasitic; we're tools to be used in service of people who ACTUALLY matter to you.
Hey, it’s your gal, the queen of antifa. I’m here to remind you all that Will Stancil is a little bitchboy who doesn’t take opsec seriously. This is why you should listen to me, the open Hamas supporter encouraging you to commit arson on social media instead.
This kind of reasoning is pretty common in American protest culture in general sadly. "Martin Luther King Jr. was widely hated but his tactics were effective, my tactics are making me widely hated, therefore my tactics are effective."
the perception is that they are, and people who oppose worldbuilding honestly often very much do not want nerd guys who look/act like nerd guys in nerd communities
it's part of the whole post-GG "bullying is good" that shades into anti-autism IMO
worldbuild or don't, but when I literally see people say "writers who worldbuild can fuck off," you're just being a dick
this is the kind of thing that I think makes people roll their eyes, so let me spell it out: you're implicitly saying "fantasy isn't for icky autistic boys anymore"
I just want to say that the writing discourse that opposes worldbuilding, concrete systems, etc. is basically both subtly gendered and disability-coded
My character sucks.
I mean he is a vampire.
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Eventually you start to notice how people who can find Problematic Implications in a grain of sand constantly about certain common autistic traits as soulless, unfeeling, inhuman, etc., always with the serene confidence that nobody in their circles will find that bothersome
There's also the not-terribly-well-hidden revulsion towards autists and things that smack of us that tends to drip off the invective against worldbuilding and people who like it, but Bluesky will never, EVER be ready for that conversation.
Publicly announcing that you've pressured an author you publish into give up the royalties you owe him so that you can redirect them to recipients of your own choosing SHOULD be absolute suicide for a publisher. What's sad is that it probably won't be.
Starting in 2008, I first started talking about my experience as a survivor of a female predator. I switched from national activism to volunteer advocacy to paid advocacy as a career. Incompetent, derailing online activists do so much real-world harm to survivors looking for help and community.
#BringBackSundowner
Robotech, this was clearly designed to be piloted by a Zentradi.
Remarkable number of anti-zionists on Bluesky are very insistent that the Boulder attack was not anti-semitic, just anti-zionist, and it's really weird watching so many people saying, "No, this maniac setting the elderly on fire DOES represent us, how dare you suggest he doesn't."
Man on beach playing piano dramatically engulfed in flames
Minor optional boss fight in a cave somewhere: Exists
Clair Obscur Expedition 33:
Anybody else encounter issues with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 freezing and crashing after you've been playing 3-4 hours?
Very sad to hear that Peter David has passed away. When I was a kid I loved Star Trek novels and his were always my favorites. Rest in peace :'(
It's kind of a shame M. John Harrison did that revolting "scifi worldbuilding is fascist" Clomping Foot of Nerdism essay so many years ago, if he'd dropped it now instead the Empathetic Advocate for Social Justice Who Thinks Autists Are Creepy and Evil crowd would lap it up.
4. Not noticing nonverbal communications is mistaken for being being indifferent to their contents.
5. A lot of us don't instinctively use things like facial expression or tone of voice to convey emotion.
Couple things I think.
1. A lot of us are highly reserved by nature.
2. If your emotional reactions are atypical, there's strong incentive to hide them.
3. Widespread cultural attitude that rationality, objectivity, etc. are cold, machinelike traits, and those who have them are less human.
