Ugh, yeah, I'm irked as hell that there are people who subscribe to that particular aversive-think. You made valid points fiction_theory, but before I could even look at the ablism in that statement, everything else jumped out at me.
There are about fifty distinct layers of rancid wrongness in his comment and I only went into about three or four of them in this post and there are probably a lot that even now I'm missing/less aware of because of my own privileges.
I could probably do an entire blog SERIES on the stuff that's wrong with those types of statements, the way they privilege the work of the privileged above the work of the oppressed, and the way that it pretends as though so many problems aren't "that bad" or "used to be worse".
Because like you so aptly stated, people are still getting killed for it.
Re: The Ever Moving Goalposts of Self Righteous Selfishness
There are about fifty distinct layers of rancid wrongness in his comment and I only went into about three or four of them in this post and there are probably a lot that even now I'm missing/less aware of because of my own privileges.
I could probably do an entire blog SERIES on the stuff that's wrong with those types of statements, the way they privilege the work of the privileged above the work of the oppressed, and the way that it pretends as though so many problems aren't "that bad" or "used to be worse".
Because like you so aptly stated, people are still getting killed for it.