(That kind of cancellation is pretty much what happened to the word “liberal,” when the late MAGA Republican Rush Limbaugh turned it into his favorite epithet.)īack in 2016, when former President Trump was first running, Slate published an essay about the trouble with “problematic” and its tendency to obscure what’s really being said. According to the Ngram Viewer, the use of “politically correct” and “politically incorrect” has fallen dramatically in the last several years after surging in the years between 19. close down other possibilities, addressing academic ableism might be most effectively done by following students. That ableism being bad just makes sense from a basic moral perspective. It’s why there’s unemployment benefits so that people don’t starve in the streets if they don’t have a job. I would suggest that the word “problematic” has evolved to its current charged usage because the phrase “politically incorrect,” once used ironically by smug leftists, was hijacked by smug conservatives to denote rigid left-wing ideological conformity. It’s providing goods/services to those whose lives would be bad if we didn’t give them said goods/services. But also I felt like we needed to look at some of the ableism. It relies on a subtle sort of bullying in place of mutual justification. Thread by NeuroClastic: I want to clarify a few points about my thread about the Sia movie. We’re saying - or implying - that it is objectionable in some way, that it rests uneasily with our prior moral or political commitments.

“Academics like me love to describe things as ‘problematic.’ But what do we mean? We’re not saying that the thing in question is unsolvable or even difficult. While speaking to reporter Dasha Burns, Fetterman required closed captioning due to his difficulties with auditory processing a common experience among stroke survivors.

Shut in movie ableism