#tumblr staff tacitly condone bigotry

[saltymcsaltything]

Hey @staff - WTF is this ad doing on my dash?

Spiritual Autism? Oh, I know this one - let's do an ableism in slapping a label on not being a brainwashed bigot!

Oh, and they did a double ableism by using blindness as a metaphor for not being a brainwashed bigot. Classy!

Hey, I know! Let's reinvigorate the moral model of disability while we're at it! For those not familiar with that particular form of fuckery, the moral model of disability essentially states that being disabled is due to a moral failing - something that many brainwashed bigots still believe. Using disability as a metaphor for lack of knowledge or a relationship with sky-daddy is moral-model adjacent. Cringe as fuck.

I'm autistic and I have religious trauma. I am atheist and antitheist because monsters in religious garb have abused members of my family. My childhood priest was defrocked several years ago after multiple accusations of child sexual abuse came to light. I have had to actively resist the urge to hunt him down and tear him limb from limb.

So yeah, I love it when greedy corporations platform this kind of abusive rhetoric from the most harmful forces in the world. I guess the money of dangerous hatemongers spends just as well as the money of thieves stealing user generated content to train their shitty AI models.

Accepting money from religious ableists to shove this deeply unsettling bullshit down my throat is fucking awful. It's also entirely on brand for a site run by a rancid transphobic ableist techbro, so it's sadly unsurprising.

Do better you pathetic fucking tools.