When people “with disabilities” discriminate against people with disabilities?!? Anecdotal case:
A manager at an organization, with an invisible disability, discriminates against a young person with a visible disability, but cloaks their ableism in seemingly anti-ableist rhetoric. How to react?
The fact that a person is categorised as severely disabled does not change the fact that such a person can still walk around in the world with ableist concepts.
If such a person is still in a position that they can exploit to the detriment of people with disabilities, we all have a problem. But it is important to see how to deal with comparable situations and disadvantageous constellations.
Having a disability does not protect you from the fact that you yourself can also harbor problematic attitudes towards other people. This is a circumstance that needs to be addressed and destigmatized.
When a person experiences a form of discrimination by another person with a disability, such problems are often difficult to criticize publicly, and such burdensome experiences often remain unnamed. This is where we as activists should step in and demand open dialogue.
Especially today, when the continuum between disabled, chronically ill, and non-disabled and healthy is becoming increasingly clear, it is also becoming apparent that different forms of disability (continue to) face different types of discrimination.
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