I mostly empathize with him because he killed someone that represents all that I hate.
This post is bogus. Because of a made up scenario where I ostracized family members and coworkers because of their disabilities (which I dont), I should feel bad about giving this man my support, when his own disabilities have nothing to do with?
I get the “violence has no place in our society” arguments but what the hell is this?
This is someone finding novel ways to scold vague unnamed people to impress their followers, I think. What is that, threads?
but what the hell is this?
I thought it was either trolling or a bot trying to undermine public support for an icon representing the public’s collective hatred of the rich, but it turns out that he’s just a guy who is extremely vocal about his disabilities and activism.
His take is utterly fucking moronic and misses the point, but it doesn’t seem overtly malicious within the context of everything else he says on Xitter and BlueSky.
Also, the biggest thing to me is that the guy at least tried to not have those problems and did his best to stay active and eat healthy. The people I know with chronic conditions don’t also help themselves even after I’ve tried helping them. I get that not everyone has that capacity, but most aren’t so debilitated that they couldn’t go for a jog or low impact work out and eat healthier.
Still doesn’t mean I don’t want them to go into debt for healthcare they should have a right to.
I would say that disabled and chronic illness are not the same. I have a friend with MS. He literally can’t work out/walk. I don’t expect him to, but he still eats healthy and of course I’ll fight for him to get access to free care.
I have another friend who is happy to go out with my wife and walk around shopping for hours on end. However when someone asks her to do something around the house she complains about her chronic illness, and she complains about how her stomach is upset even though she doesn’t eat well. She does have an illness that I recognize is real, however she has capacity to help her self in some areas in small ways that eventually add up to something bigger.
There’s no doubt that the CEO killer didn’t have a real issue that was at times debilitating, but he also seemed to go out and hike, work out and eat rather healthy when it wasn’t as severe and he could manage. Exercise and healthy eating could solve a number of contributing/compounding factors for people with chronic illness but they have to take that step.
Ok, now do that for every disabled person
Bruh, it’s not his disability that got him praise…
Let’s take a unifying situation and try to make it accusatory and and confrontational
That’s how that reads to me.
Sure! All they have to do is just kill ONE billionaire!
Let’s please not take this opportunity to make the populace complicit in corporate greed
Not the point, I would wager. You can be compassionate to one group while wanting to pull down another.
Yes, and you can can have sympathy for one person without having to care for everyone too.
I think the “do this for every disabled person” in the OP is… Bullshit. Reminding people to funnel some of that sympathy to other, closer people where you can have more impact in their lives is reasonable, but the sentiment here is condescending.