I’m OK with that. Sometimes inflammatory rhetoric helps to make a point. I have political biases and I’m not shying away from those. Being an outsider watching events from afar (I’m British), my experience and interpretations are different and so I don’t necessarily fit neatly on either side of the US political divide.
So I do not deny that maybe some will see this as inflammatory. I would merely point out, that this doesn’t preclude thoughtfulness in the same writer – and I would hope that reading the rest of the piece that this was apparent.
Thank you for your comment. I used the term ironically and I agonised about whether to use inverted commas around the phrase, in the end I can see your point, and while I’d agree that these things must be taken extremely seriously, there is room for humour too.
I should also note, that as a Brit, my perspective is going to be different from the majority of commenters on this thread. Maybe that gives me some detachment from the reality, but also a different outsider’s perspective?
I’d argue it has more to do with EED (Easy Excusemaking Disorder). TAD and similar afflictions come from the fact that EED causes people to look for simple explanations and not engage with the wider societal issues that are at work in our culture.
I feel that wasn’t really the point of my piece. It was that dismissing these fears out of hand through pathologising them is the wrong approach. This is why I argue for the application of the social model of disability when looking at this.
Heidi,
I’m OK with that. Sometimes inflammatory rhetoric helps to make a point. I have political biases and I’m not shying away from those. Being an outsider watching events from afar (I’m British), my experience and interpretations are different and so I don’t necessarily fit neatly on either side of the US political divide.
So I do not deny that maybe some will see this as inflammatory. I would merely point out, that this doesn’t preclude thoughtfulness in the same writer – and I would hope that reading the rest of the piece that this was apparent.
Thanks for reading,
C.
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Hi Richard,
Thank you for your comment. I used the term ironically and I agonised about whether to use inverted commas around the phrase, in the end I can see your point, and while I’d agree that these things must be taken extremely seriously, there is room for humour too.
I should also note, that as a Brit, my perspective is going to be different from the majority of commenters on this thread. Maybe that gives me some detachment from the reality, but also a different outsider’s perspective?
Thanks for reading,
C.
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Hi Frank,
I’d argue it has more to do with EED (Easy Excusemaking Disorder). TAD and similar afflictions come from the fact that EED causes people to look for simple explanations and not engage with the wider societal issues that are at work in our culture.
Thanks for reading,
C.
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Hi Sam,
I feel that wasn’t really the point of my piece. It was that dismissing these fears out of hand through pathologising them is the wrong approach. This is why I argue for the application of the social model of disability when looking at this.
Thank you for reading.
C.
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