sandersgreysage:

sandersgreysage:

just because the die-in yesterday at mitch mcconell’s office was the first one to get larger media attention in a while, doesn’t mean that this hasn’t been happening and doesn’t justify posts like “when the disabled are protesting your heath care bill you know it’s bad” or stuff about how “when you have the disabled forcibly removed youre despicable” like it’s not despicable to have any protestors removed and erasing the decades of work that disabled activists have done in this country. also don’t say “the disabled” like what the fuck that’s literally sensitivity 101

the first large scale protest for disability rights in the us was a sit-in in the 70s that lasted 25 days, there’s a long and proud history of disability activism in the united states and when you’re implying a. that disabled people only protest when it’s super bad, when disabled people have been fighting for healthcare since the 70s, and implying that these people are not professional organizers, you’re erasing their agency. 

one of the women in a wheelchair that was arrested is a defense lawyer, these are people that are prepared for this, most of them have been arrested before, so shut the fuck up with your infantilizing bullshit like you’re so surprised that disabled people have the capability to care about politics and to act in defense of their rights and educate yourself about the work of organizations like adapt, that are the reason why we even have the ADA. 

like where the fuck were you when protesters from adapt chained their wheelchairs together in the capital rotunda a couple months ago and were dragged out of their wheelchairs by police, where were you when disabled people (especially disabled people of color) were and are being beaten, arrested and murdered by police, surprise this isn’t some new fad to the trump administration, or some sign of the times that disabled people are protesting, 

we have been fighting oppression for decades and you haven’t been listening. and people who are surprised when politicians make comments insulting disabled people like it’s the worst thing you can do (looking at you m*ryl streep) like politicians haven’t been actively pursuing policies to eradicate disabled people (especially poor disabled people and disabled POC) for hundreds of years. newsflash they’ve been trying to kill us, and institutionalize us, and prevent us from every right they can from voting, from public spaces, from jobs, from education, from healthcare, from life.

it doesn’t surprise me one bit that they would publicly insult us and if you were surprised by that then you need to fucking educate yourself. i’m so fucking tired of performative allyship where you pretend to support disabled people or only support the groups of disabled people that you belong to and distance yourself from those “bad” disabled people. if you’re not with all of us, you’re not with any of us. 

no wait i’m not done

police vans in dc are wheelchair accessible because of protestors in wheelchairs, many of them from adapt, like think about the slim minority of places that are wheelchair accessible but the police vans sure are, because of how many times these trained activists have been arrested.

also if you’re reblogging an inaccessible version of a post without image description (eg just a tweet or image without the text below for screen readers), congrats for making your “support” for disabled people inaccessible to disabled people, like wow, if you need a more tangible representation of how much the performative allies actually care about disabled people and accessibility, it’s a. not enough to do the bare minimum to make their shitty posts about disabled people accessible to other disabled people, and b. not enough to do the bare amount of research to not make shitty posts.