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ablednt · 2 years ago

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I'm going to be real that anti-intellectualism as a term reads like reverse oppression to me as a disabled person.

Like as a term it fucking tells you nothing because intellect, the concept of intelligence, isn't under fucking attack aside from people rightfully pointing out its roots in eugenics. No one is Oppressed for being well educated and there's not even really any measurable social consequences one that basis in specific.

The only times it's used in a way that isn't just blatant ableism is when it's critiquing willful ignorance but at the same time the term like.... doesn't at all express that? Just say that bigots are intentionally restricting information that could change their politics because they benefit from that bigotry, just say willful ignorance, intellectualism isn't under fucking attack when people are routinely denied basic freedoms and human rights based on their lack of intelligence.

#it just #god everytime I hear people talking about it it makes less sense to me #I cannot see one argument that it's a real issue that doesn't admit that either #1. you think disabled people are choosing to be disabled and simply lazy #2. you do not consider disabled people a real part of society and think they exist in a vacuum in space somewhere #so you can just go 'well of course this isn't about them [nothing ever is because they don't exist in my brain unless they're demanding #things from me]#like as if y'all will just fucking know who's disabled and who's showing disabled traits/symptoms just cos'#as if people who never read (and I literally mean never even your strawman 'has never read a book in their life' illiterate cause uh. those #are disabled people and/or poor people el em ey oh not some random republican #are the same as people falling into alt-right pipelines or spreading cult ideologies like #these are straight up not the same fucking problem they're not even related so why must we have a term that places the blame of bigotry on #the disabled instead of acknowledging he actual fucking problems?#like imo it's very similar to how ppl call emotional abuse narc abuse because they don't want to acknowledge that abusers just. choose to #be abusive like no bad people aren't anti-intellectual they're pro bigot

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