13. Relatedly, there is a special circle of Hell just for people who abuse the ADA to bring their awful, barely trained pets everywhere.
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14. People like to wax poetic about the bipartisanship of the ADA, but disability advocacy hasn’t been bipartisan on the federal level in a very, very long time.
jul 28, 2025, 12:24 pm • 48 7 • view
15. It is still worth reporting what disabled conservatives think/believe/do. Reporting on disability accurately means reporting on the whole community, not just progressive nonprofit leaders and online influencers.
jul 28, 2025, 12:25 pm • 49 2 • view
16. It isn’t really accurate to say there is a single disability community. There are, instead, many different disability communities with different beliefs and political objectives.
jul 28, 2025, 12:36 pm • 48 8 • view
17. Disability rights is still useful as a framework/way of achieving change.
jul 28, 2025, 12:37 pm • 38 3 • view
18. Relatedly, disability justice is not disability rights plus.
jul 28, 2025, 12:38 pm • 39 2 • view
19. The problem with “Asperger syndrome” as a concept is not that Asperger was a Nazi, and the primary intra-movement fight over the term happened years before the documents showing Asperger’s Nazi sympathies were uncovered.
jul 28, 2025, 12:58 pm • 46 7 • view
20. The biggest cultural gulf in disabled organizing is between people who were born disabled and people who acquired a disability later in life.
jul 28, 2025, 1:00 pm • 60 4 • view
21. Requiring COVID-19 antigen testing for asymptomatic people attending an event is not accessibility. It is expensive security theater. The tests are extremely unreliable unless someone is already obviously sick, and in that case they should stay home whether it’s COVID or not.
jul 28, 2025, 1:50 pm • 47 1 • view
22. People refusing to wear masks is not eugenics. People just don’t like wearing them and don’t think that hard about the implications. It’s not that deep.
jul 28, 2025, 2:12 pm • 56 3 • view
23. It is extremely screwed up (and also incredibly privileged) to be nostalgic for March 2020.
jul 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 37 3 • view
Very interesting points, especially this one on those born with a disability and those who acquired one later in life. Thanks for sharing your time and insights
jul 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view