Comment on How to move a sofa
protist@retrofed.com 2 months agoI don’t think we understand your point or how it relates to this post
Comment on How to move a sofa
protist@retrofed.com 2 months agoI don’t think we understand your point or how it relates to this post
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Exactly. You don’t, and you’re unwilling to hear perspectives that conflict with your own, so you never will. That’s only reinforcing the erasure of already-invisible marginalia. The whole point of what I’m saying.
protist@retrofed.com 2 months ago
It seems like you’re saying that by not mentioning people with disabilities in every story they are inherently being ableist. Or is your point that the person in the screenshot should not have helped move the sofa?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
My point is that we shouldn’t be glorifying a society that relies on the goodwill of neighbors helping neighbors instead of funding structured social support programs that help everyone, including marginalized and disadvantaged people, to receive the help that they need.
protist@retrofed.com 2 months ago
Why can’t we have both? I have a neighbor who has MS, and his neighbors help him out a bunch. He also gets government assistance and accessible public transport at his front door. Wouldn’t you rather live in a place where you can depend on your neighbors for help when you need it than not knowing or caring about your neighbors? I genuinely disagree that glorifying helping other people is at all ableist