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interesting how white people with disabilities that make it difficult for them to navigate social situations can still manipulate social discourse against people of colour

I’ll never criticise someone for having difficulty navigating social situations, but racism cannot be characterised merely as difficulty with navigating social situations. disability / neurodivergency may impact how racism is expressed, but it can’t make you express basic disrespect for the humanity of people of colour unless that was already present.

to use neurodivergency as an excuse for racism, and thus to imply that showing basic respect for people of colour is some kind of nuance of social ettiquette, is to dehumanise people of colour. it is to say that we shouldn’t expect to be respected as people, but should be content with the fact that most white people understand social ettiquette well enough to hide their disrespect (and even this falls apart when you consider that how we’re treated by neurotypical white people often does not differ in its essentials from how we’re treated by neurodivergent white people). not to mention that it does a disserve to disabled & neurodivergent people in general.

this post is okay for white people to reblog btw

definitely a nuanced situation but racism is never okay

I’m banning white people from using the word “nuance” starting now