• AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      wut idk, is hot wheels ableist or a compliment

      like damn bruh, check out hot wheels

      complimenting ability diversity sounds like the opposite of ableism to me js

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        My leg is busted and I can only hobble around with a cane. Finally got accepted into seeing a physical therapist, outlook is good, but its gonna take a while to recover.

        Recently took a paratransit ride.

        Fully disabled guy in a motorized wheelchair got on.

        Within minutes, after he asked me what happened to me, we were joking about how he would probably, actually be able to beat me in a race.

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            The bus driver was actually great too, younger than me, maybe early or mid 20s, before the wheelchair bound guy got on, we bitched about microtransactions in games, and I was able to confirm that yes, games did not in fact always used to be like they are now, with dark patterns and what not… he sounded like a lot of his friends were trying to gaslight him into just accepting the enshittification as normal, that its always been like this.

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        Right I don’t see how it’s ableist or an insult. She didn’t say it like it’s a bad thing or associate it with any assumptions. It’s not like she called him “Legless Wonder and his Half Pint Segway” or questioned if he can govern from a chair. It’s closer to calling him Governor Brown Hair. Neutral. Silly at worst.

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            Would she have called Trump “President Hot Wheels”?

            No, because that wouldn’t make sense? I do mock Trump for his mental disabilities all of the time. Is that also ableist?

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      19 days ago

      I don’t know, I see a distinction between mocking someone FOR BEING disabled, and mocking someone WHO IS disabled. This is the latter imo…

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      Wait, that was about Govenor Abbott of Texas? Yeah, that’s just not right. There’s so much other shit you can fling at him that would be better.