The author of the IndependenceChick blog writes, “critical race theory, with its Marxist roots and simplistic narrative of “you are either the oppressed or the oppressor.””
She asks, “how can I live in a society that says, “Because you are disabled, you are a perpetual victim and everyone else is oppressing you–except, of course, that you are also a white American, so you’re an oppressor–so everywhere you turn, you are basically a worthless piece of humanity?””
Neither the left nor the right serve disabled people well. The left’s “check your white privilege,” as IndependenceChick suggests, contains a hidden implied argument, Original Sin, and is thus incompatible with the presumption of innocence of liberal justice. Both left and right, it seems to me, assume that human life is a war of all against all.
Liberalism, exemplified in the Declaration and Constitution, by contrast, assumes that the human being is a rights-bearing creature entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Citizens can make a social contract and work together toward that end.
A current theme of the IndependenceChick blog is mainstream society’s tendency to impose gratuitous restraints on people having disabilities.
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