If someone calls me the r slur, and I respond to that by saying “no, you are <r slur>” then yes it is ableist. I know that’s not what you did, but it’s just one degree away from what you did. Just imagine if the tweet wasn’t about disabled kids and it was about kids that belonged to any other minority: would it be ok to say Zach is the one who belongs to that group, as a way to put him down?
edit: Sorry, the above is uncharitable. You didn’t use a slur, it’s a disingenuous comparison. I should acknowledge that there’s some truth to what you’re saying, that the people Asmon is attacking largely are the same people that become his fans. What I take issue with is ceding any ground to him by implying that disability or being neurodivergent makes you less worthy in any way.
I guess Asmongold probably means it in a eugenics kind of way where the “most r-worded” is assumed to be neurodivergent people or people with disabilities, so saying “that’s you” could be seen as saying his audience and him are those things and should be eugenics for it.
But really I just think it’s crazy that the most openly anti-intellectual guy who takes pride in living in filth and doing nothing but play video games is using rhetoric about how other people are a drain to society.
Asmongold…that is literally you and your audience.
Don’t just use ableism against fascists.
Is it ableism for people to be stupid?
If someone calls me the r slur, and I respond to that by saying “no, you are <r slur>” then yes it is ableist. I know that’s not what you did, but it’s just one degree away from what you did. Just imagine if the tweet wasn’t about disabled kids and it was about kids that belonged to any other minority: would it be ok to say Zach is the one who belongs to that group, as a way to put him down?
edit: Sorry, the above is uncharitable. You didn’t use a slur, it’s a disingenuous comparison. I should acknowledge that there’s some truth to what you’re saying, that the people Asmon is attacking largely are the same people that become his fans. What I take issue with is ceding any ground to him by implying that disability or being neurodivergent makes you less worthy in any way.
I guess Asmongold probably means it in a eugenics kind of way where the “most r-worded” is assumed to be neurodivergent people or people with disabilities, so saying “that’s you” could be seen as saying his audience and him are those things and should be eugenics for it.
But really I just think it’s crazy that the most openly anti-intellectual guy who takes pride in living in filth and doing nothing but play video games is using rhetoric about how other people are a drain to society.