Divesting From Internalized Bigotries - Tumblr Posts

I'm trying my hardest not to use ableist slurs or pejoratives anymore.

It's hard. Insults attached to intellect seemed to be the most effective to use against my abusive, fascist father, growing up. The one thing I could call him that would make him and his enablers pause a moment and actually think.

Yet, there's no denying that there are plenty of "dumb", "stupid", "idiotic", "delusional" people who have excellent and kind hearts, and who don't let their insecurities and fears control them in the way that most bigots do.

There are people who suffer from "delusions", yet they DO understand that they are having them…people who nonetheless still care about what the truth is, and who therefore do their absolute best to deal with life and with others with reason and compassion… people who are "delusional", yet wind up doing even better at logic and accepting reality than those who are considered "normal" or "sane".

People who are purposefully ignorant, proudly bigoted, or wilfully cruel?

Those types of folk deserve far, FAR less regard than people who are simply disabled or clinically mad.