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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2h

A perfect example of ableism right here….

So ignorant it’s unreal.

Other people have to work. What makes disabled people so special that they don’t have to?

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2h

I’m in the UK but similar I guess

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 4h

That plus other issues like NDAs which can silence disabled folk

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah sort of the same thing I guess, they can't because it's too inaccessible and energy consuming

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 4h

You shouldn't only care about the rights of disabled people because it may be you one day.

You should care because it's the right thing to do, for other humans who deserve life, love, and support.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 6h

Jfc the ignorance of the majority of the public disability benefits is truly off the scale…

Instead of listening and learning, they just spew hate and then get defensive when called out.

They believe the clickbait headlines rather than the actual disabled people…

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 21h

Please can you start openly challenging Labour more on their cruel policies regarding disability benefits.

We need some allies right now. It’s scary.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

“My disability doesn’t define me!”

Well good for you.

My disabilities do define me in so many ways.
They define and dictate my entire life.
They define what I’m able to do.
They define my goals for the future.
And lots more.

None of this is “negativity”… it’s just the truth.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Or... Maybe just don't tell others how they should feel about being disabled...

Dr. Ben Kenobi @drbenkenobi.bsky.social · 1d

Don't let your disability define you. You're so much more than that!

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

You’re allowed to identify as disabled, even if you think “others have it worse”.

It’s not something that’s only gatekept by the “most severe”.
Disability is a varied, diverse spectrum.

If your condition(s) affect your life, if they disable you… you are valid.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't know as I'm not American, but I know insurance companies are a huge issue over there.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

You’re allowed to identify as disabled, even if you think “others have it worse”.

It’s not something that’s only gatekept by the “most severe”.
Disability is a varied, diverse spectrum.

If your condition(s) affect your life, if they disable you… you are valid.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Employers do discriminate based on disability... All the time.

They just do it in ways that aren't "obvious", and they rely on the process to complain/challenge legally being so hard and inaccessible that most won't do it.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Not quite, but it’s the same sort of purple-washing

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

The "Disability Confident" scheme is a voluntary scheme that employers can sign up to be a part of.

It's meant to signal an inclusive employer.

But in reality it's little more than a tick-box exercise so they can pretend to care, giving them good PR.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah this too

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sel-bsky-social.bsky.social @sel-bsky-social.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/ui2h_pHDDmk?...
This is quite a good video on the subject

"Aspie Supremacy" - A Deep Dive

YouTube video by Ember Green

youtu.be

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I can understand this take. I'm certainly not proud of most of this country, past or present.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism doesn’t just come out and announce itself by killing people…

It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda…

Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side.

The killing is the last part.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

This doesn’t make it okay (though an inaccessible system and fear may be very valid reasons not to contact DWP)… but it’s not this hardened criminal who is sitting on loads of riches…

For some, that “fraud” may be the difference between surviving or not.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

A significant amount of the “fraud” in the disability benefits system, is not what most people would associate with fraud…

Rather a disabled person who has just slightly embellished their condition or hasn’t contacted DWP to report a change for whatever reason.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not even safe for people to get a diagnosis of some conditions in many countries right now due to discrimination.

This is especially true with things like Autism, where you can’t move to many countries if you have a dx.

So we should never “require” a diagnosis for support.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

Because there’s quite literally a savings limit for those on means-tested disability benefits… one which hasn’t changed in nearly 20 years.
Fuck off

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 2d

One of the big reasons I hate the "superior" angle some Autistic people believe, is that it feeds into the Nazi rhetoric that Asperger created to justify his eugenics.

It's just ableism in another guise.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 3d

To me, being "proud" of the country I'm from, includes acknowledging all the awful stuff we've done, and learning from that.

If we don't do this, we end up going round in cycles where we keep making these huge mistakes and atrocities... Like we are now

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