tweet by Alex Dacy | Wheelchair Rapunzel @dacy_alex:
“We need to start treating ableist slurs as seriously as we treat other forms of hate speech. Disabled people don’t deserve to be mentally abused on behalf of something you don’t deem “that serious.” Ableist slurs are very serious.”
Why not both?
But to your point - being a young(er) person with a (at times) invisible disability that still means I use a wheelchair, I get the same shit, and it’s frustrating as hell. As if it’s any of their fucking business even if we were “faking”…
Solidarity friend. ✊