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Watching the Leftists I know IRL who insisted they don’t hate Jews, don’t believe in antisemitic conspiracies, and so on… post and share ZOG style conspiracies about Iran has been something else.

Like, yeah, you’re not antisemitic because that’s right wing Jew hate. You’re antizionist because that’s Left wing, but they don’t (or refuse to) understand that they just hate Jews in a different font.

You couch any of the antisemitic conspiracies in Leftist jargon and they will fall for them hook, line, and sinker.

Love this cycle of humans deliberately removing all a species natural predators or introducing them to an area where they won't have any so they can more easily be hunted for sport and then going "ooooooh nooooo whatasurprise we have to hunt them for sport".

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I think the biggest misunderstandings of the social model of disability come from the facts that:

1. It's flawed and does a lot of "hair splitting" about what counts as a disability vs a condition.

2. People see the word "culture" and assume it mostly refers to how people treat each other on an individual level. Or like. Social discrimination.

People's attitudes are culture, yes. But so are lots of other things.

Doctors being trained to distrust patients is culture. The physical layout of buildings and cities is culture. Welfare programs (or lack thereof) are culture. Technology (and access to it) is culture. What languages people speak/consider socially acceptable is culture. The clothes you wear are culture. Economic systems are culture. Religious beliefs and philosophies are culture.

The medical model of disability posits that disabilities are flaws within the individual and should be corrected within the individual. Disabled people must work to become more like abled people and to fit in with existing systems.

The social model posits that disabilities are flaws within the environment and that correcting the environmental would significantly reduce the extent to which people are disabled.

For someone using the social model, disability is defined by the extent to which someone is barred from participating in society due to their medical condition/mental illness/physical difference ect. Not by whether those conditions exist or are inconvenient.

The social model is about more than changing attitudes or giving workplace accommodations. The medical model is about more than treating people's symptoms.

Neither of these models is without blindspots, nor are they the only two models that exist. But talking about it gets really confusing when people are using the exact same terms while subscribing to completely different ideas about what those terms mean.

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