BEHOLD, THE POWER OF OHIO

Most non-Minnesotans have no idea what this means, but to put it plainly: we're raised with not just the expectation but essentially -programming- to assist others who get stuck during the winter. We'll help people we'd otherwise punch on sight if they're stuck in the snow and ice, for zero reward.

This is the level of rage we're at with ICE. I'm not joking to say it's almost physically painful to not help someone stuck like that, and it's worth it because the people stuck are ICE.

The only way we have to express how mad we are above this is channeling the First Minnesota all over again.

The Scandinavians who settled in Minnesota brought with them their Norse understanding of the laws of hospitality: you do not fuck around with winter, that if someone needs help in the winter, you help them as long as they don't actively try to hurt you or your neighbors. Food, shelter, labour, whatever, if you can help in winter, you do.

ICE has violated the "actively try to hurt you or your neighbors" bit of the laws of hospitality, and thus the hospitality has been revoked. They are free to feel winter's wrath against those who would bring harm to the community.

I like to think that Lady Skaði would be proud of her distant children.

this reminds me of the mud wizard who walked through everything without any problems while the police officers kept sliding and falling and getting stuck, you can watch it right here.

for context, this was during anti-coal protests in lützerath which went on for days and included people being forcibly removed, injured, or otherwise violated by the police. they showed up in riot gear against people simply sitting and camping and wanting to protect their forests. it was a really big deal here.

I know this is a humorous exaggeration designed to show how silly it is to deny medication and mobility/quality of life aids to disabled people by applying the argument to something silly in a way that nobody would ever do but... unfortunately I have heard people say this. I've heard people suggest that people with minor sight problems shouldn't get glasses, and people needing to move to a stronger prescription should do it and should stay on as light a prescription as they can use and still function, because the glasses will "weaken their eyes" and make their eyesight worse (which is bullshit). People will pull this ableist bullshit on glasses wearers, too.

unfortunately no matter how much you try to parody ableism, some completely genuine asshole out there already has you beat.

#'you wouldnt say this about wheelchairs!' yes they would.#'you wouldnt do this with a missing limb!' i promise they do#'but what about-' look just assume no matter how stupid it is that people are dicks about it

oh i might get canceled for saying this, but i feel like many in the disabled community, and the c-punk tags in particular, could really stand to read this closely.

i see a LOT of #disability and especially #physical disability posts complaining about people "derailing" in the reblogs by talking about neurodiversity and mental illness. a few points here:

1. you are not being "silenced" or "talked over"—you can still talk as much as you want in your own reblogs or make a new post about whatever you want.
2. if we apply some critical thinking, the hard, impassible line between "body" and "mind" can actually be pretty hard to draw so cleanly. where do physical symptoms of mental and neurological conditions come from? where do mental symptoms of physiological conditions come from?
3. these people are, as OP points out, your friends. they are showing you that your experience is echoed and mirrored across human existance. we do not need to be exactly the same as every other member of our communities—in fact, i think our communities would be weaker for it. just because someone is not exactly the same as you does not mean their experience is not alike or valuable to consider.

i consider myself a member of the mad community and the disabled community. what i know from being in the center of that venn diagram is that we need each other. saying "the social model tells us that people wearing glasses are not disabled" is a lot less useful to everyone than "what can the average glasses-wearer and the average cane-user learn from each other?" for example.

we NEED each other. all of us. we will not win without each other. quit bullying your allies away for a sense of superiority or special belonging in categories that barely separate us.