disabled.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A place for people who are chronically ill, mentally ill, disabled, and friends/families/allies to come together, meet, share knowledge and random banter, and just about anything else.

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Emily Johnson

People using the word “sanewashing” make it so clear we have a long way to go in disability justice and fighting ableist language

Choosing to spread misinfo, disinfo, conspiracy theories isn’t a mental illness — usually it’s a calculated political or monetization move

That journalists, clinicians and medical researchers especially are using “sanewashing” because they know it’s a buzzword that will get more engagement *because* people weaponize mental illness and ableist language as an expression of morality and anger — it’s really fucked up