Obviously this is not a big deal but it does irk me sometimes when people include ableism alongside the other isms or when they say shit along the lines of “as a disabled queer POC”. The logic being whatever aspect of your identity “disadvantages” you the harder you have it and the more righteous you are. It really is straight intersectional bullshit and trivializes the fact that race and gender are all things that are violently enforced to maintain the political rule of capitalism. It is true that disabled people suffer disproportionately under capitalism, especially under the pretext that all humans must work to produce value for profit, but hell capitalism fucks over all kinds of people. At the end of the day its just not a special form of oppression that deserves the same level of attention as forms of oppression literally centrally to capitalism. The reason questionable languages like this takes hold is because there is a plethora of liberal or straight up reactionary theoreticians the likes of Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler that dominates the intellectual sphere and the revolutionary kernel of Marxism completely buried under paragraphs after paragraphs of indecipherable bullshit made up so some humanities professor can keep their pathetic job.
I think if you look at the history of ableism you’ll see it’s been just as systemic as the other isms. The US used to have ugly laws, that is laws against people with unsightly appearances, deformities, disabilities. Those people were cited in violation for being visible in public. If you look at how deaf people were treated…just horrible. These things have been violently enforced. Let’s not forget asylums, sanitariums, forced sterilizations, forced lobotomies, etc.
Sounds like you’re just mad someone on the internet for being self-righteous and are trying to attribute it to them being the wrong kind of leftist. But I think history pretty well justifies the “level” of ableism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law
Literally banning unsightly disabled and poor people from public. Yes it is intersectional bullshit because class intersects with these things.
when people include ableism alongside the other isms or when they say shit along the lines of “as a disabled queer POC”. The logic being whatever aspect of your identity “disadvantages” you the harder you have it and the more righteous you are.
This is literally the “oppression olympics” shit that right-wingers spew.
Come on.
At the end of the day its just not a special form of oppression that deserves the same level of attention as forms of oppression literally centrally to capitalism.
The reason questionable languages like this takes hold is because there is a plethora of liberal or straight up reactionary theoreticians the likes of Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler that dominates the intellectual sphere and the revolutionary kernel of Marxism completely buried under paragraphs after paragraphs of indecipherable bullshit made up so some humanities professor can keep their pathetic job.
We did, and without further explanation from you this reads like class reductionist bullshit.
so you think disabled people face the same kind of oppression that queer and people of color face? Gender oppression has been around since the inception of class society, the subjugation of races, their exploitation and expropriation created the bulk of capitalist wealth, what is the significance of the oppression that disabled people face historically? It is not something that gets to stand on equal footing with the other two, and quit throwing stupid names at me
race and gender are all things that are violently enforced to maintain the political rule of capitalism
you are allowed to forcibly sterilize disabled/neurodivergent people in the united states
also poverty is violence and people with disabilities have a significantly higher chance of ending up impoverished. in fact, I’d argue that ableism is so fundamentally embedded into capitalism comparative to the have-to-be-actively-maintained hierarchies of white supremacy and patriarchy that people such as yourself truly do not see it as systemic violence, but as a fact of life.
Mark Fisher quote, Marx ‘from and to’ quote
You’re reducing disabilities to their impacts upon labour and ignoring oppressions suffered due to social disability, which includes the social effects of physical disabilities.
This is a very capitalist brained take on the issue, reducing everything to work and productivity and neglecting the aspect of life that is living instead of working.
