Post #4441438

2026-08-06 18:45 UTC

RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117041121493297601 “Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage.” YES. THIS. A million times this. “Disability” is just another eugenics-centered, capitalist, ableist scam, to dress up a world that has been designed to deliberately exclude a huge number of its residents, only to sell “upgrades” to people that it has intentionally excluded so they can participate, instead of fixing itself. Fuck ableism. Fuck the supremacy of the normal. Fuck eugenics.

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@drahardja@sfba.social 2026-08-08 06:32

The word “disabled” is a victimizing term that puts a label on an individual for straying too far from the norm in some inherent property. The term “disabled” glorifies “the norm”, whatever “the norm” happens to be in the present society. Have fewer than two arms? Disabled. Can’t stand up? Disabled. Can’t see or hear normally? Disabled. Don’t process information in the “normal” way? Disabled. Naturally sad or fatigued a lot? Disabled. We slap a label on people and tell them to go to lengths or buy equipment to merely *participate* in everyday life. It’s backwards. Instead, we need to put a label on the *system* that fails to accommodate the person. A society or built environment can be “hostile”, “under-equipped”, or even “eugenicist” if it doesn’t allow all people to operate in it. #disabled #disability #terminology #words

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