Today a large “leftist” influencer took a screenshot of one of my Bluesky posts about masks and shared it to X/twitter to encourage people to harass me.

It was condescending and mocking, and I spent the entire time having to block and delete comments.

People actually opened Bluesky accounts just to harass me.

This guy has hundreds of thousands of followers, claims to be on the left, and yet spent his day encouraging others to harass a disabled woman advocating for her survival.

This is exactly why I’m shouting about ableism and eugenics every day damn.

We may want to believe it’s only the MAGA crowd that hate us, but unfortunately there’s quite a few eugenicists on the other side of the aisle as well.

We see evidence of this all the time.

Disabled people’s lives are not valued.

We’re talked over or talked down to. Stripped of our autonomy. Not factored into policy decisions. No one fights for us.

Which is why we must keep fighting for each other.

I was tempted to block this guy, but instead I responded calmly and explained my position

I explained that for myself and members of my community, wearing a mask is a matter of literal life and death

I explained that his choice to use me as fodder was causing me harm and robbing me of spoons

I took the high road and stood up for myself while appealing to him to be better than the MAGA crowd he fights against.

I asked him to delete and apologize.

I doubt he will, because I suspect the feelings of a disabled person don’t matter to him.

But at least I tried. I stood up. I said “this is not ok”

I will keep saying it every day until things actually change.

#disabilty #ableism #eugenics #covidisairborne #wearamask #n95s #uspol