A person can know a lot about one thing. That doesn’t make them an expert in everything and that also doesn’t preclude them from saying wildly ignorant and ableist things. And if a person is an expert then they SHOULD be including an understanding of disability and not doing that is just ableism.
Isn’t giving any white male “expert” carte blanche to just say anything and believe them without a second of skepticism something that we are moving away from as a society? His comments are blatanty false and very dangerous and it is completely reasonable and in fact necessary to correct him.
And also: “A lot of fascism scholarship is focused on the ways explicit violence is enacted not disability rights” is an absolutely horrific and bigoted hateful omission and not a reflection of reality. That should be a red flag not a justification for ignorance.
I’m usually challenged by writing on this type of platform, and re-reading that sentence, I agree that that isn’t what I meant. I don’t think of him as an expert because he’s a white guy, but I do appreciate the research he did on the Rwandan genocide to explain the quick flip to violence.
That’s why I was responding to someone who was flippant in dismissing his contributions to that specific scholarship, admittedly quite poorly.
And you seem to be overlooking that I made no comment on his knowledge of the Rwandan Genocide.
No he’s a fucking clown and I say this as an academic who has studied fascism
