Saturday, February 1, 2020

The wrong question

 There are no right ways to answer the questions "Where should we put disabled people?" or "How should we solve the problem of disabled people?" because those are the wrong questions. The right questions are "Why does our society strip disabled people of the freedom to control their own lives and the resources needed to do so?" and "How can we overthrow the systemic ableism that treats disabled people as problems to be solved instead of humans with autonomy, agency, and rights?"

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