8 Matching Annotations
  1. Nov 2022
    1. “Imagine waking up one day and reading a book dedicated to arguing why you, and someone like you, doesn’t actually count as a person,”

      Not only that, but the book is written by dozens if not hundreds of people who are considered experts, so the general public has no reason to doubt them.

  2. Jul 2022
    1. According to the Daily Beast, the Trump administration even disbanded a unit in the Department of Homeland Security dedicated to domestic terrorism and right-wing extremists, upsetting many intelligence and law enforcement officials.

      In a shocking tun of events, an administration that had demonstrated it cared little for the lives of marginalized groups disbanded the one unit that could have focused on fighting an actual threat to the country instead of imagined strawmen. Republic of Gilead, here we come.

      Sarcasm aside, it is terrifying to me how easily people in power can look the other way because changing the status quo is too inconvenient; in this case actively stymying efforts to protect people from a growing danger.

    1. When a story is truly breaking, this is what it looks like. Our technique here is simple. Select some relevant text. Right-click or Cmd-click to search Google When you get to Google don’t stop, click the “News” tab to get a more curated feed Read and scan. Investigate more as necessary.

      The "check for other coverage" technique is a quick and easy way to verify whether a news story has been reported by other recognizable sources. This is especially helpful when you run across a news story as part of an informal conversation on social media. Show me the references, people!

  3. Jun 2022
    1. Autistic people’s identities were derived differently, not an amalgam of social intersections, but of the intersections of their values, interests, and experiences.

      Autistic self-conception and identity are formed differently from the neurotypical standard. This influences both the motivations and actions of autistic people, and explains one aspect of social disconnect commonly experienced between autistic and neurotypical people.

    1. Thus, after that of a com-puter programmer, I acquired my second-most central and enduring iden-tity: that of an autistic person. It was then that I felt truly accepted in acommunity for the first time.

      Dekker describes the formation and momentum of online autistic culture. Within the context of the autistic narrative of the time, these communities allowed autistic people to find one another and encourage self-acceptance.

    1. I’m just thinking about how for disabled folks and other disenfranchised folks social media provides a lifeline to community and resources that aren’t always accessible in our everyday lives

      While criticism of social media is often well-deserved, this series of tweets provides another perspective that is usually overlooked. Disabled people and other disenfranchised people use social media to find community and resources that are otherwise inaccessible.