Obviously there's a lot of nuance I'm leaving out here but that is THE take I see in disability circles and only disability circles. And I'm seeing lots of it. So. That's the word I'm passing on.
Peil Wiggler
: It's funny ("funny") to see how many people who felt soooooo bad when he died and his diagnosis came out now want to say it's "just a joke" or "just words" like words don't do material harm or reflect material biases that do harm.
My TL is SUPER full of disabled Black women especially talking about ALL the layers of this but like. The "how many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man" energy on that point specifically is unreal
I honestly didn't even make the connection bc I wasn't aware people were saying shitty things about his appearance back then but like. KNOWING THAT NOW. YEAH
(odd coincidence how I was just thinking about him bc I was watching a bit about the last time chris rock said something shitty about jada at the 2016 oscars, and he was shown in the audience briefly.)
There's already people questioning how hair loss is a disability, too, which is like. Even if you don't feel like doing the basic research to learn alopecia is an autoimmune condition, and often a symptom of more systemic stuff... do you understand why you don't make fun of a cancer patient's balding head?
i’m just like ‘yeah okay jumping to assault as an immediate reaction is bad in most any scenario but also it would take a better person than me to do fuck-all else’
it's like an especially gross joke here given the cultural importance of black women's hair, which chris rock knows bc he was in a documentary about it
because like. lbr here. let's be really real. no amount of twitter "canceling" actually does shit or fuck. celebrities are rich and famous which makes them more or less untouchable. they count on that.
Disability Twitter says "you'd think people would be more cautious about physical appearance jokes after Chadwick Boseman, and yet."