unwellsnail

@unwellsnail@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ableism is so ingrained in our society that folks have trouble even recognizing it. OP is absolutely experiencing ableism, being dismissed and treated differently because of their health issues, recognized and intentional or not, is ableism.

  Your example is a very legal perspective of ableism that barely scratches the surface of ableism and makes it difficult to address wider impacts. This is a similar thinking to racism only being legal segregation and the KKK, when it shows up in everyday life in far broader ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  able·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ noun A system of assigning value to people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in eugenics, anti-Blackness, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. This systemic oppression that leads to people and society determining people’s value based on their culture, age, language, appearance, religion, birth or living place, “health/wellness”, and/or their ability to satisfactorily re/produce, “excel” and “behave.” You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism.

  This is also tied to healthism/health supremacy, recommended researching more about these topics to better understand how they impact everyone’s lives, disabled or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they expected to swap the hostages for Palestinian prisoners, since they’ve done it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of dis/misinformation on them, but those sites are also useful tools for organizing around issues and getting the correct information in front of people who otherwise would never see it and unfortunately there aren’t great alternatives available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you exerience back spasms pain so intense it makes you black out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this isn’t an unusual type of pain with someone with a back or spine injury. Like others said, see a doctor asap as they may be able to help. You might need physical therapy along with medication, and it’s better to start sooner rather than later when it could be less treatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boycott In-N-Out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Posting what I said on this in another thread-

  So, this decision is really bad for reasons that go beyond sick workers. It’s really unpopular to mention but COVID isn’t over, it’s not gone. We just normalized the suffering and shunted the most vulnerable into its path. As one of those vulnerables still trying to survive, masking has been an exhausting situation. I mask, I have to, and antimask sentiment makes it hard to operate in a world that already wishes I wouldn’t. Decisions like this cause harm in wider ways. I wrote an email to In-N-Out Owner/President Lynsi Snyder about this in response to this policy. I don’t think she cares what this policy does, but I’m sharing here for others who may want to understand.

  I’m writing to ask you to please reverse your recent decision to ban employees from wearing a mask unless medically exempt. This decision shows not only a complete disregard for the health and safety of your employees and customers, as everyone is affected by disease spread, but is also profoundly ableist and lacking an understanding of current (and historic) context. Requiring employees to not only divulge their medical information to their employers but also openly to the public is a mindset rooted in othering people who are disabled or otherwise medically vulnerable. In general, it’s bad when a marginalized group must publicly declare their status as such, but especially now when people are already struggling to survive an ongoing pandemic amidst the hostility of antimask sentiment. This decision furthers that othering and hostility, making those employees into targets. But this decision doesn’t just impact your employees directly, it feeds into that larger cultural antimask sentiment and perpetuates ableism. This lack of understanding of the impact of your decision is a clear message that it’s not just those employees your company does not value, but all disabled and vulnerable people. Please show your abity to learn and understand the impacts of your decision, as well as your disapproval of ableism, and reverse this decision. Further, I urge you to demonstrate actual value for your employees and customers by adapting to our reality and implementing measures to reduce the spread of covid and other pathogens in your restaurants and other workplaces. This can be achieved through simple measures like improving the ventilation and filtration in buildings, improving sick leave policies, and other actions including, yes, masking by employees.

  Thank you Xxx

  PS This company push to ignore our current reality and new cultural understanding of disease spread is not just callous, it’s boring. Be better.