Re: Disabled In Socialist Countries
Moderation:
I'm dropping a caution for this. it's borderline personal attack.
1. I am a social service work student. I have spent the better part of the last sixteen months studying politics, social structures, privilege and oppression, group dynamics, sociology, psychology, gender theory, family dynamics and a host of other things. I am planning to be a social worker, and I consider myself an ally of all sorts of causes. Telling me to shut up because I know nothing is foolish; I'm studying this in school and have plenty of intelligence to sort out fact from fiction. I am, in other words, someone who has devoted a great deal of time to the study of these concepts, including hundreds of hours of conversation with experts in the field and hundreds of hours of personal research. Where, exactly, is your similar accreditation, the one that entitles you to invalidate my experience in the manner that you have? I mean, disagree with me if you want to, but it ought to stop there. You'll note that I'm not saying anything like, "You're just an x. What could you possibly know"; that would be extremely rude, and plenty of people know a lot of things.
2. Can you point me at where I said that not everyone can be an artist? Better question: how is this even relevant?
3. Can you point me at the bit where I said "ra ra socialism today!" or some other equivalent? Because what I'm pretty sure I said was that although I think it's a great idea - and I do, it's got a ton of benefits - it's also not going to hurry up and step in place tomorrow. It can't. We're not ready yet.
The reason you're getting a caution for this is because there are far, far better ways to disagree with someone, short of insulting them about their lived experience. You do not have the right to tell anyone that they know nothing unless you are prepared to back yourself up. If you can credibly support that statement, I will retract the caution and apologize personally.
Until then, please demonstrate more tact.
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