tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post7099484704296133795..comments2023-10-31T05:22:37.723-07:00Comments on The Right Geek: The Trouble with Grand Sociological TheoriesThe Right Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649094767960738820noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-10207094725690876992018-01-07T21:26:34.669-08:002018-01-07T21:26:34.669-08:00Also, the "neurodiversity" people barely...Also, the "neurodiversity" people barely exist. You won't find many scientists and doctors agreeing with people like that. Even in this day and age, you'll find more support for something like eugenics than that. Many people don't even think the way dogs are bred is okay. Again, this is why some disabled people get frustrated, that the subject of disability is only brought up over trivial non issues like that instead of in it's own right.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233478491325885714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-29817901837310977892018-01-07T21:21:18.642-08:002018-01-07T21:21:18.642-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233478491325885714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-73079154484823182432018-01-07T21:11:58.817-08:002018-01-07T21:11:58.817-08:00You don't have to hate certain people to be ha...You don't have to hate certain people to be harmful to them. I don't think most people hate people with disabilities, I do think many are apathetic to them and see them as burdens though. If people's lives are undervalued/negatively affected through apathy instead of through malice, it doesn't make much of a difference when the results end up the same. You made a passing comment about how you would be accused of being a "bigot" by these people, but the reason why some people would accuse, or at the very least suspect you of downplaying the "cause" of disabled people is because you're taking this topic and essentially boiling it down to "don't make normal people feel uncomfortable", instead of simply talking about it in it's own right. Do you know why people try to blur the lines between "normal" and "not normal"? Because for many people, they have gotten used to the words normal and abnormal very often being used to basically mean good and bad. "Normal" is used to convey that something is perfectly fine and cool, while "not normal" is used to describe something wrong, unnatural, weird etc. It's always been the not normal people, in all their forms, that got shit on in life, but as soon as the idea of saying there is no normal comes up, people bitch and whine and wonder "why?". If not for that history, maybe people wouldn't care as much about being "not normal" because it wouldn't have the negative association it often has. Why do you want to categorize people so much anyway? Why does it matter? <br /><br />People are undervalued by many on the basis of either not being able to work, or are very limited with what they can do, like the ill, disabled or old. As are people who create their own problems with their mistakes, like drug addicts or alcoholics. And unlike subjects like homosexuality, trans people and race, disabilities have never really been a politically hot topic. Is it really surprising that some of them feel forgotten, ignored and down trodden? Like you said, most people aren't thinking about this subject one way or the other, that really isn't an excuse when it's raised to people's attention though, and they still hold the situation in low regard. If it was always as simple as ignorance, it wouldn't be a big deal. Something that really annoys me is that you lecture people here about giving others the benefit of the doubt, but having read some of your blogs, you don't do that yourself. It's clear that you regularly try to pigeonhole negative behavior and assume the worse of things like "the left" and "PC culture" and "SJW's" and you have promoted other people who do the same, including skewed types who misrepresent people. <br /><br />There is no disabled community, because a disability can be a lot of things. The people whose comments you shared here can claim these activists don't speak for them, but I hope they realize they don't speak for other people just as much. Some of them put across that dismissive sentiment of "look I'm disabled, but I'm not complaining about it or upset about not having a cure prioritized, I know my place". Even recently I saw a woman on Facebook with a facial deformity complaining about disabled people getting "offended" if people mock them, saying that she has been insulted for how she looks and that they should just "accept it", yet further down her updates, she was whining about mean feminists. So disabled people need to shut up if people say nasty things about them, but feel free to bitch to the high heavens about feminists saying mean things about "men", whoever that even is. Also, speaking of things like cures in a casual way is in itself kind of dumb, considering there are some conditions that simply can't, and don't even necessarily need a cure. The only prevention would have been an abortion. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233478491325885714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-49168053748577048702016-03-06T11:18:53.024-08:002016-03-06T11:18:53.024-08:00Very true. In fact, it's one of the many reas...Very true. In fact, it's one of the many reasons so many of us oppose nationalized health care.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-78782311667444723262016-03-02T17:16:18.597-08:002016-03-02T17:16:18.597-08:00a lot of benefit from the above article, and hopef...a lot of benefit from the above article, and hopefully this article can be a reliable source of all other resources. Thank you very much. <a href="http://health-brenda.blogspot.co.id/2016/01/obat-tradisional-untuk-limpa-bengkak.html" rel="nofollow">Obat Tradisional Untuk Limpa Bengkak</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14600787702657271119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-6667997078858506592016-03-02T08:07:10.555-08:002016-03-02T08:07:10.555-08:00And since we don't actually back nationalized ...And since we don't actually back nationalized health care, that possibility is not on us.The Right Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09649094767960738820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-73679773495170730362016-03-01T12:51:04.970-08:002016-03-01T12:51:04.970-08:00The only thing about "forced cures" that...The only thing about "forced cures" that I can think of is the possibility that nationalized health care might require a comparative cost assessment and refuse to pay for the more expensive choice. Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-1727066248128908492016-03-01T08:26:40.602-08:002016-03-01T08:26:40.602-08:00What I would give for a cure-- I don't want to...What I would give for a cure-- I don't want to have this disease and I have fought it for years (Wegener's Granulomatosis). Excellent post.Cyn Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404416186783891402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-8236144052410854422016-03-01T08:13:07.835-08:002016-03-01T08:13:07.835-08:00Understandable. That's why I noted that no one...Understandable. That's why I noted that no one should be forced to be cured.The Right Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09649094767960738820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-11743123625858904592016-03-01T08:12:18.770-08:002016-03-01T08:12:18.770-08:00It is too bad you have to use so many words to bri...It is too bad you have to use so many words to bring this literary community back to the obvious: people are people. Intersectionality is a cult who's main goal has always been to demonize some groups and elevate others into the status of moral and immoral and the oppressor and oppressed based on nothing more than their biological status. One would think that at this point it would be seen for the transparent con game it is. In this particular case, one's status in the community literally goes up or down depending on how healthy they are. In that scenario, of course one is going to be offended by the notion of being "cured"; it is like taking away the keys to the country club. In SF, the more normal, the less white, the less male one is, the more value you have as a writer. One will claim that "one-drop" of oppression even while the act of doing so is itself a privilege I have no access to. That is unless you truly believe straight white males read Heinlein and Bradbury because they were straight white males. That's what Nebula-nominee Daniel Jose Older means by "white mediocrity." He assumes every white person in SF is as much of a racist as he is.<br /><br />When John Scalzi was the President of the SFWA he asked us to "bone up" on intersectionality and linked us to an absurd PDF that amounted to nothing more than a blood libel with Third Wave Feminism's usual sociopathic laser-like focus on the straight white male as the source of all that is and has been wrong with the world, the straight white male being the source of "unearned privilege" that ignores "white mediocrity." The PDF quotes a woman once referred to as having "shamanic power" at The Feminist Wire, the black lesbian Audre Lorde, who used phrases like "the gap of male ignorance." In the PDF Lorde writes about the "white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure." Anyone familiar with Lorde's essays knows she talks about such groups the way Nazis talked about Jews, unless you're stupid enough to believe "social justice" permanently singles out every straight white male on Earth as morally depraved in some fashion, high on the fumes of their own disdain and superiority for everyone not them.<br /><br />Anyone who's looked at the recent Nebula and Hugo Awards knows this con game about the "marginalized" has been successfully mainstreamed right into the heart of the SF community. It doesn't take talent to be rewarded as an SF writer anymore. All one has to do is sit on Twitter and write about "white mediocrity" and "male tears."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004333519370593118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-16329264382597589602016-03-01T07:52:49.885-08:002016-03-01T07:52:49.885-08:00Just an addition to my comment (that you quoted), ...Just an addition to my comment (that you quoted), my condition is part of how I "think" and to "cure" it may come close to "brain washing".<br /><br />I'm extremely nervous about anybody who thinks other people need to be "brain washed" especially if they don't admit/realise that is what they're talking about.Drak Bibliophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16927294480472681750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-38819768905121991862016-02-29T19:27:44.522-08:002016-02-29T19:27:44.522-08:00BrilliantBrilliantSABR Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00879056167130238382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-76275043429025595432016-02-29T17:38:24.951-08:002016-02-29T17:38:24.951-08:00Nailed it. Nailed it. Habakkuk21https://www.blogger.com/profile/11928724752057162332noreply@blogger.com