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My apologies. Hopefully I'll get to it before you've moved on to other topics.
But I've been kind of sapped of any energy or motivation for respoonding by the heat here recently and not very motivated to post.
Well, maybe I can manage a quick answer here.
I don't want to enter the "who suffers more?" competition.
But there are people in the liberal community using labels such as "white" and "male" in such a way that it minimizes and trivializes the issues the disabled are facing, who fall under those labels by default, by constantly making broad gender and racial comparisons. Whites and white males, for instance are routinely cast, solely because of their color and gender, as incapable of understanding the kind of suffering or social injustice that AA and women endure and are therefore disqualified from even making a comment about it, or worse, attacked for even agreeing with and defending PoC or women.
That's like telling an AA or women they may be able to experience individual suffering worse than some but they are, after all human and humans get special privileges. It totally negates the experience of AA and women. That's what they are doing to the disabled. They're saying "you may be disabled but you're white and/or male, so shut up." Human suffering is universal. The labels that we suffer under and because of are really minor details compared to an individual's knowledge and experience. When we talk about AA suffering or women's suffering or disabled suffering we're really talking about human suffering. And we're all humans so, to me, that makes us, to the degree of our personal experience with suffering, all qualified to talk about.
But we're not talking individual or personal suffering when it comes to the disabled. The disabled are an entire demographic, just as AA's and women, and this kind of thinking is negating the issues of an entire demographic.
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