Who wore it better? This is just... I mean... I can't... Oh my... 🤣
Star Trek: TNG, Season 3, Episode 8 / Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 4, Episode 2
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Stop adding ableist tags and comments to my post about not erasing disabled people from your setting.
No, it does not suddenly become okay to say "there are no disabled people here" because you're arguing that disabled people not *killed*, it's just that magic "cures" them, all of them...and stops them from being born...
Explain to me how you're going to cure autistic people, people with Down syndrome, people with facial and body differences, people with PTSD, without killing us or terminating us before we're born?
You cannot claim that naturally occurring populations just don't exist in your setting, without inherently stating that genocide or eugenics or both are actively at work in your setting.
"But disabled people aren't killed, they're just cured by magic--"
So you mean magic automatically aborts fetuses who will be born disabled in any way? You mean eugenics?
[ID: Seven screenshots from the show Star Trek: The Next Generation, showing Geordi la Forge, a Black, blind man, talking to a white woman.
Geordi has his visor off, revealing his eyes which are pale white with cataracts. He says, "Guess if I'd been conceived on your world, I wouldn't even be here now, would I?"
The woman responds, "No."
Geordi says scathingly, "No. I'd have been terminated as a fertilized cell."
The woman, turning to look at him in a patronizing manner, says, "It was the wish of our founders, that no one have to suffer a life with disabilities."
Geordi angrily asks, "Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I should be here?"
End ID.]
If you're desperately scrambling for reasons to avoid letting disabled people exist within your setting, you are ableist, and you need to fucking deal with that.
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As someone who is 6'5" and not the best with people skills, I can easily imagine doing this.
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