"[Tourettes] is not excused, Tourette's is explained."
"It should be able to be explained and understood."
I'm autistic. I'm queer.
I understand the pain of people claiming that those identities are not real.
But that's nothing compared to what people with Tourette's have experienced for the last two days.
Every single one of these attacks is based in the disgusting, hateful lie that people with Tourette's are just faking it to get away with bad behavior.
Every single one.
so many people have said that I "put my disability over being black"
[morbo futurama voice] INTERSECTIONALITY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
@YKantRachelRead I can't get past this post from the Kamala Harris campaign a few days ago.
A woman wins a gold medal and the Democratic presidential candidate "celebrates" with a weird, racist dual loyalty joke.
People think it's team fucking sports.
@fedilore I've found that, whenever someone wants you to subdivide your identity like that, they have an agenda. they want you to set aside a fundamental part of yourself to advocate for the remaining part that you and they have in common.
I'm pretty intimately familiar with it from the idea that I'm "dividing the trans community" by talking about transmisogyny - as though I can talk about how transphobia affects me without talking about how it affects me as a trans girl.
@fedilore @YKantRachelRead
> She refused to compete for China
What does this even mean?
I had no idea who she was or what was her life story, so after looking at this screenshot I thought "maybe she immigrated to USA just this year; and before that, while living in China, she refused to participate in the Olympics because of China's human rights violations or something?"
But then I opened Wikipedia, and... she was born in USA, she lived there her whole life, she has zero ties to China except that her father was born and lived in China but moved to USA 16 years before she was even born.
@IngaLovinde @YKantRachelRead In large part, this is about Eileen Gu.
It's not that weird for Americans to compete for another country they have some connection to, if the sport they're competing in is less developed in that other country.
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