stop calling people “stupid” when you actually mean “a horrible person”.
stop blaming bigoted views on an inability to understand.
bigots aren’t bigots out of a lack of understanding of the harm they’re causing. they perpetuate/support systems of oppression because on some level they DO know exactly how those systems work, and therefore know that it works to their own benefit. nor is it an inability to feel empathy. it’s an active choice they make, to put their own interests ahead of other people’s suffering.
non-comprehension is not the same as moral failing. conflating the two erases the conscious forethought and deliberate reinforcement it takes to maintain an oppressive system by those who benefit from it, in favor of referring back to a social construct that is itself oppressive (intelligence.)
non-comprehension is not the same as moral failing.
stop throwing disabled people under the bus because you want to pretend oppression is all caused by inherent traits some people just *have*- which you, of course, don’t have, thus conveniently absolving yourself of social responsibility and opting out of self-examination/criticism.
non-comprehension is not the same as moral failing.
This is a huge huge problem with the social justice movement (as I know it anyway) so I’m relieved to see this post. Really relieved, actually. Any system that punishes misunderstanding with the same vigour it punishes malice is always going to be an ableist one.