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· 2 Heshvan 5783 (Thursday 27 October 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Reading media responses to the Fetterman debate, I feel I have a better understanding of why FDR didn't tell anyone about the wheelchair.
— Dr. Bryan Edward Stone (@bestoneTX) October 26, 2022

Amanda CAARSON

· 2 Heshvan 5783 (Thursday 27 October 2022) · 1 minute to read

What he’s doing is actually impressive and admirable and I get that watching him campaigning while recovering is making people uncomfortable but we have plenty of smooth talking Senators that never miss a syllable, and a lot of them suck. This guy is the real deal. https://t.co/dsbqMaNJfC
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) October 27, 2022

If people are uncomfortable watching Fetterman publicly adapt to his recently acquired disability and using assistive technology to live his life, fuck them and fuck their discomfort. This shit would be perfectly normal if society as a whole hadn’t spent the last longest doing its level best to make sure people with disabilities stay out of the public eye unless they’re serving as the occasional slice of inspiration porn by making sure the ADA remains mostly unenforced and generally just making the surrounding environment as inaccessible as possible either through unawareness or just plain stupidity. Mostly stupidity. And spoiler alert: people with disabilities navigate society and life despite these people, not because of them. Should Fetterman be elected, he’ll be able to do his job just fine, and probably better than most of the little shits in Congress, provided he gets the accommodations he needs which he is entitled to by the ADA everyone is still doing their best to make sure is unenforced. Everyone who’s uncomfortable watching Fetterman might want to sit the fuck down and ask themselves why that is. Because it sure as hell isn’t Fetterman’s fault. He’s not the problem. The people who are uncomfortable are.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 2 Heshvan 5783 (Thursday 27 October 2022) · 0 minutes to read

I see Tucker Carlson is tripling down on the ableism tonight.

Let me explain something—a stutter or slowness in speech doesn’t equal cognitive impairment. Abled reporters shouldn’t need to comment on Fetterman’s ability. Presume competence and practice empathy.
— Steven Aquino (he/him) (@steven_aquino) October 27, 2022

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Amanda CAARSON

· 2 Heshvan 5783 (Thursday 27 October 2022) · 0 minutes to read

The Republicans are an actively fascist, anti-liberty party, and most people in this country don't care.

Were not going to long survive this. https://t.co/tS7985OkM9
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) October 27, 2022