pickThis was good. It was mostly surface level, but some good stuff: favorites were the justice system & why it doesn‘t want people who can evaluate evidence or where he discusses how biases in data were used to perpetuate racism by analyzing the data to roast white people. didn‘t need to be written rehashing old viral tweets & the chapter that was “this (famous disabled) person has these specific accomplishments are they really disabled?” What? Yes.
IriDas What?!? Is the person disabled?!? Did he think he was somehow defending them? 2h
5feet.of.fury @IriDas I feel like he meant it positively, but the end result was very wtf. Disabled people still being disabled even though they have significant achievements because they still require significant accommodations and face barriers to everyday life seemed very rudimentary for someone as educated as he is. He said it about Stephen Hawking and then equated it to an abled person not knowing physics being “disabled”. 1h
IriDas Uuuuuhhhhhh. You‘d think an editor might have said that it was problematic. It comes off as very “Dr Asperger-ian.” i.e. It‘s OK to be disabled as long as you are also smart. Sometimes NGT is really just too flippant with his remarks. 1h
5feet.of.fury @IriDas exactly. They aren‘t suddenly not disabled because they are also top of their field (if someone wants to consider THEMSELF not disabled, that‘s fine but it‘s not for a random abled person to decide), not knowing physics is a poor comparison the world is built for average people. No idea why no one shut that down, it was foolish. 54m
