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A review by root
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
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Picked up this book thinking it was going to be about neuroethics and bioethics in technology developed for disabled people, for example the recent incident where a brain implant company declared bankruptcy and forced their patients to undergo a second brain surgery in order to take the implants out to "recoup their losses."
Instead it's a long-form Twitter thread explaining the bare baby basics of the social model of disability, complete with sarcastic condescending introduction, alongside a little "did you know? Pokemon and Dungeons & Dragons are autistic technologies, because so many autistic people like it. My favorite TikTok account said so!"
I wrote some critiques of this book twice but kept losing the text due to my connection so you'll just have to pretend I talked at length about things like the prioritization of LSN autistic conceptualizations, the way that arguments where you insist [insert marginalization] are actually the majority and really hammer in how we are Super Normal™ is reflective of a primarily white flavor of activism whose core goal is to allow the person to access the privileges they had before they became marginalized as opposed to asking why we have to treat anyone different or simply existing as a small populace as less than, etc.
Instead it's a long-form Twitter thread explaining the bare baby basics of the social model of disability, complete with sarcastic condescending introduction, alongside a little "did you know? Pokemon and Dungeons & Dragons are autistic technologies, because so many autistic people like it. My favorite TikTok account said so!"
I wrote some critiques of this book twice but kept losing the text due to my connection so you'll just have to pretend I talked at length about things like the prioritization of LSN autistic conceptualizations, the way that arguments where you insist [insert marginalization] are actually the majority and really hammer in how we are Super Normal™ is reflective of a primarily white flavor of activism whose core goal is to allow the person to access the privileges they had before they became marginalized as opposed to asking why we have to treat anyone different or simply existing as a small populace as less than, etc.