John C. Calhoun, Enslaver and Vice President, argued in the 1830s that Black people benefited from slavery because they were "adult children" who "weren't intellectually capable of caring for themselves"
And we continue to prop up this ableist body hierarchy to this day.
How is that even possible? Because is usually done to people with developmental and intellectual disabilities and cloaked in "benevolence" and "rehabilitation"
But framing slavery as a "positive good" is 200 year old strat.
Do you know how long it has been illegal to pay Crips less than minimum wage in California?
1 year.
1 year since it was legal to do slavery to disabled people.
#🧵
Calling all Autistics!
I am experiencing major resentment and demand avoidance about sleep.
Strats pleaseeeeee!
Apparently I coined the term health theft today.
Its like wage theft, when employers underpay, avoid paying benefits, or otherwise extract value from workers without worker benefit.
But health theft is when employers disable workers thru working conditions, exposures, surveillance, AI etc.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, the effects of SARS-CoV-2 are commonly body-destroying in ways we’re barely beginning to understand, and the best way to keep yourself and others safe is to WEAR A MASK.
Protester We believe in science!
Me: Awesome! Me too! Do you want a mask in this crowd of thousands of people?
Protester: Nah.
Me: Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool
Disability is progress.
Like a literal measure of progress.
So many people who would have just died live long engaged lives now.
But it's uneven. Disabled, Black, Brown, Queer, Trans, Immigrant, and Indigenous Femmes are not living as long as they could with our current tech and resources.
Oh man. I have really trusted you all in the past. But calling lawsuits they can pay off in their sleep big losses while they use that exact legal precedent to push for age verification and censorship is not journalism.
No, the verdict in the ‘social media addiction’ lawsuit was not a win against big tech, it creates a legal precedent for mass surveillance, censorship, the total destruction of the open web.
Go to badinternetbills.com and fight these laws!! 👈👈👈
It was lovely! We made affagattos between the coffee and ice cream station.
Science and the Law should really be besties instead of no contact siblings
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Would you mind covering this? Your previous coverage was that social media could positively affect mental health. I want companies held accountable for systems that hurt people but this case feels like it runs counter to that science? Maybe I'm missing something.
If you do not have basic scientific literacy I am not voting for you for Congress.
Hold a public event and have no covid precautions? You are willing to endanger people and believe misinformation.
Why would I vote for that?
Fellowship: This will take 90 mins to complete
Me, 13 hours later: DONE!
Happy Forced Christianization of the Indigenous Irish Population by Colonizers day! Don't forget scalping was invented by the English to eliminate the Irish before it was exported to Turtle Island!
Oh and that "famine" was a genocide!
Not only is disabled the only marginalized group you can join at any time
But everyone starts out disabled!
Children are subjugated for all the same BS reasons disabled adults are.
Stop stuffing children into crowded boxes with no air filters and then blaming them for transmitting disease!
The grazing collisions thing really got me. Animations usually show sudden surprise impact of the moon and earth. Not this inevitable grinding closeness
Shame is a beacon. When it shines it points me toward unmet needs and access barriers.
I feel shame when I am slower than expected.
I feel shame when I am misunderstood.
I feel shame when I ask for help.
I feel shame when I say no to helping others.
I feel shame when I don't understand.
I fully read this like kpop was an alignment in dungeons and dragons.
Lawful Kpop
ICYMI: Check out this incredible data visualization story on the shuttering of Long COVID clinics by @delfimarchese.bsky.social.
Delfi reached out to 100s of U.S. clinics: only 30 responded, showing how difficult it is for people with Long COVID to access care.
thesicktimes.org/2026/03/10/w...
holy shit
The belief that only some bodies get to choose is rampant
Trans people
People getting abortions
Immigrants
Queers
Women
Children
Intellectually Disabled people
Black people
Poor People
And on and on
All told their liberty must be removed for their own good. They clearly can't be trusted with it.
We are still stuck in this 1800s mindset today. Instead of doing away with all forms of body hierarchy and designing for liberty for all we simply shrunk the pool of people who we believe deserve to have their right to choose removed for their own good.
This is body hierarchy. And it wasn't just the proslavery people who thought this way.
"Abolitionists perpetuated the notion that slaves needed guidance because they did not have the capacity to determine their own best interests." -2024 Lamar Hardwick
And it's not just race, it's also gender, class, age, and more:
"all negroes require masters, whilst only the children, the women, the very weak, poor, and ignorant, &c., among the whites" need "protective governing"
All these people were considered unfit to choose for themselves
Race was always disability in disguise
Proslavery arguments focused on "the weak"
"It is the duty of society to protect the weak;" but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, "It is the duty of society to enslave the weak." -1851, Fitzhugh
