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Damn it. Why do media critics like @Sulliview and @NPRpubliceditor @kellymcb get to use "lame" without ever having to respond? "Lame" is ableist, akin to using "gay" or "ghetto" as a perjorative. And yet top media cops at @NPR @washingtonpost use it without care.
Easily once or twice a week I write to journalists via DM & explain why "lame" is part of our ableist language, but it's conflating physically ability w poor character. Most journos get it. But @Marketplace doesn't care when @kairyssdal does, nor do @NPR or @washingtonpost.
Infuriating how @washingtonpost @NPR @Poynter @Marketplace @apmreports promote "objectivity" & will fire ppl or end their careers for not being objective re racism, sexism, trans/homophobia, etc. But they don't care abt ableist slurs by scolds @Sulliview @kairyssdal @kellymcb.
And here we have it: @NPR's @stevemullis , confronted with many years of disability activists saying "Stop using 'lame'" citing a dictionary as a reason it's not abliest.
Well, if a dictionary says something isn't racist or ableist, IT NEVER COULD BE!!! https://twitter.com/stevemullis/status/1296437357500157957
Well, if a dictionary says something isn't racist or ableist, IT NEVER COULD BE!!! https://twitter.com/stevemullis/status/1296437357500157957
"I just don't hear it." @LauraGarbes adding to the literature on public radio voice by @LewisPants & others about who gets to define what is an objective voice. To NPR, it's an able-bodied white voice—the dictionary says so! (h/t @skyedali @SFdirewolf) https://prospect.org/culture/i-just-dont-hear-it-voices-of-color-npr-public-radio/
One of the many reasons ' @SFdirewolf edited DISABILITY VISIBILITY is so important is that it is written & edited by disabled writers. When these kinds of writers are frozen out of writing standards for @NPR or a dictionary, ableist language is normalized https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/
