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- Dec 31, 2018
Disability studies is really wild stuff. Many people are now aware of the members of the Deaf Community who think getting hearing aids or cochlear implants is being a "traitor" to your disabled community. But the actually published stuff in the field justifies all the dumb shit on Twitter, it's all about how using medical science to eliminate disabilities is a form of genocide, how Disability Pride should be the next Pride movement to erase the "stigma" of being disabled so people no longer feel they need to get rid of their disabilities and can instead be proud of being part of a group, how self-diagnosis is the only acceptable form of diagnosis because doctors can't know your lived experience as well as you can plus giving anyone a "monopoly" on defining what disabled is and how it's determined is oppression, how curing or fixing disabilities isn't a "solution" because the only acceptable solution is society not disadvantaging disabilities in the first place, how the disabled community should focus their efforts on ending capitalism, etc.I think it's funny that the "Disabled" section of the privilege list doesn't have anything for disabled that isn't dead, sperg, or paralyzed.
Like: missing a leg, loss of use of an arm, damaged back.
It just shows you what kind of 'disabled' use those lists on people.
Fat studies is very similar. And I mention it because Bob is fat and should be studied.