I think it’s important to remember that not everybody knows what the hundreds of meme images used here mean.
I can never tell if the posts here are making fun of or agreeing with the screenshots they’re posting, I always have to wait for comments to roll in with context. :(
Didn’t we just finish telling off people on Blahaj zone for making ableist comments like this?
For the unfamiliar: “la sombrita” is the name of the corrugated metal piece on this bus stop post. It is designed to provide shade to people waiting for the bus, because the areas where these are installed have very little shade.
Due to a multitude of reasons from NIMBYs to building codes, it’s difficult for the city to install anything much bigger or better than this.
If you find this interesting, you can learn more by listening to episode 545 of the podcast 99% Invisible. It’s called “Shade Redux”
They call leftist spaces the “echo chambers,” yet they are the ones rushing to shut up opinions they don’t agree with by defederating. Kind of funny.
Here’s a terrible take I saw today from a lemm.ee user:
[Hexbear’s] they/them tags are a blantant mockery of trans people.
I guess my pronouns are a joke??
no, they aren’t pro trans or pro lgbtq. They purposely pick those pronouns and go around to post racist stuff, bigotry, chinese propaganda and all the accompanying junk. Typical online terrorism.
Hexbear is so good at being GSRM inclusive that they literally think it’s satirical or something. Which basically outs them as having never been a part of a truly inclusive space, since they expect that most people should use “normal” pronouns, and that spaces shouldn’t be visibly queer.
I don’t agree. It’s just normalized to the degree that most people don’t actively think about the connection anymore, the same way that they don’t think about how calling something that’s boring “lame” originally came from a term describing a physical impairment.
Just because something is normalized doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful. Equating different brains with badness upholds ableism the same way that male-as-default in some languages upholds patriarchy.