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I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the kind of people to say that disabled people are a burden to society

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As a disabled person you’re spot on.

It’s the kind of people saying that disabled people should just “get on with their life” and stop “making everything about their disability”.

Like yeah sure Bradley, I would do that, if I could get on with my life because c*nts like you didn’t deny every attempt at making the world accessible. Maybe if people like you didn’t complain every time a cent was spent on an accessibility fund or on medical research I would actually be able to be getting on with my life.

But no, since we’re treated like shit I have to make “everything about my disability” just for my basic survival. Because if I don’t I’ll just be left in a ditch to starve.

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I fear by “get on with life” they might just mean “end your life”.

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That’s what it feels like to me.

It’s something like “Live as if you weren’t disabled because you making your disability visible bothers me. And if you’re unable to do that, well either stay in an institution where you belong or if you can’t afford that you should just die”

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4 points

Get on with your life = status quo worship

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23 points

Disabled people were some of the first German gas chamber victims.

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Be me.

Have severe depression.

chuckles, I’m in danger

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IIRC it was disabilities that resulted in institutionalizing. I mean, sure, your depression could be so bad it makes you suicidal - but the Nazis didn’t exactly have a problem with you killing yourself.

It was people with intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and disruptive mental disorders. Down Syndrome, Fragile x, quadriplegics, cystic fibrosis, schizophrenia, severe ASD, etc. Almost always things that have obvious changes to “normal” behavior, intellect, and appearance.

However, I will say the modern day list of disability has grown, and I would strongly suspect that if the Nazis of Germany could get their hands on modner medical records and purge far more things, they would not have hesitated to do so.

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They know, they don’t care.

American individualist propaganda has a load of people believing they’re free to do whatever the fuck they like, and fuck anyone who tries to stop them.

Selflessness is a rejected concept to them, they will never productively participate in a community of people.

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Individualism for me, fashion police for you!

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if only there was some sort of word for a political movement that weaponized the trappings of individual liberties in the name of killing marginalized people. i do nazi myself thinking of one

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damn you just made some gears spin in my head

I think capitalism promotes “individualism” because the alternative is selflessness which means more money spent for the greater good of society

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It took a long time, but one day, the term “human capital” finally clicked in my head and I couldn’t stop mulling it over until I realized how insanely fucked up it is. What are the humans? Capital. What is the capital? Humans. Human. Capital. And we’re so blase about it.

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Seems like you could get this shit struck down by challenging it in court based on the ADA

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not with republican filled courts lol

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Stop talking about selflessness, start talking about selfishness, because wearing a mask is perfectly selfish. Yes it’s selfless, too, of course. But not wearing one isn’t selfish, it’s just dumb. If they were competent and proactive at selfishness they’d be aggressively demanding that everybody wear masks.

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Individual rights and selfishness are orthogonal. The idea that the only bad actions are illegal ones is the issue. We want to use laws to enforce ethics instead of community.

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121 points

Is some idiot trying to outlaw medical equipment in the States?

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Mayor of New York

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Thx. Seems I’m not too bad off, not following the news that closely… 😔

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I thought he was trying to reinstate a pre-Covid ban and it has exceptions for wearing masks for medical reasons?

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It’s not just about the disabled person, but anyone who lives with them needs to be wearing masks in public places because if they get sick it’s pretty hard to avoid spreading at home.

Medical exemptions have never been good enough.

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Victoria government in Australia

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Nice… Using a law that was meant for the Ku Klux Klan to repress democratic routine and freedom. At least that one seems to be targeted at protests and not all every day life. And it contains exemptions. I’m just not sure if “we want to film the faces of everyone who doesn’t agree with us” is a valid reason in a democracy. At least not on it’s own and if there isn’t some good reason to do it.

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At least that one seems to be targeted at protests

You’re celebrating that, rather than accidentally targeting immunocompromised people, it deliberately targets people exercising their constitutional right to dissent?

Btw, like with abortion, any exemptions a GOP ban has will just be a fig leaf for the complicit media that’s not going to be in effect in the vast majority of cases.

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7 points

Lol what a bunch of reactionary hicks

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The law allows people to wear medical or surgical-grade masks in public to prevent the spread of illness. Law enforcement and property owners can ask people to temporarily remove those masks to verify their identity.

Am I missing something, it looks like this law allows medical masks.

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The problem is that law enforcement doesn’t do nuance like that. You know full well they will tear masks right off of disabled/immunocompromised people’s faces (probably wrecking the mask forever) and point to the law as an excuse.

There’s no good reason to ban masks in general. The Healthcare CEO shooter wore a mask during the crime but the police still caught him.

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Ah yes, certainly this will never ever be abused by law enforcement ever.

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10 points

This is clearly a proposition intended to remove anonymity from any future shooters in NYC.

You saw the camera footage. It’s as watched as CCTV in London, apparently.

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Fantastic meme, OP.

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If you’re being unironic, thanks ☺️.

If you’re being ironic because this is more a political thing than a meme, microblogmemes is meant to be a whitepeopletwitter alternative that doesn’t divide based on race.

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Also the original (and more useful) definition is “a gene, but for ideas”. This is an idea that more people should consider, so it qualifies anyways.

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Cultural memes and internet memes are not the same thing. This is neither.

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Whitepeopletwitter isn’t for political opinions either. The content is supposed to be entertaining.

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Whitepeopletwitter is in practice atleast 50% political opinions.

I don’t know why you care so much about this? Does disability rights bother you?

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