The Sotomayor article also gave me this thought: The progressive figures know that diabetes does not affect the Chief Justice's role. They hope her impairment helps remove her from the court, hoping that others buy into this nonsense. To me, this is extreme ableism and goes beyond discrimination. It's using a person's disability to obviously and overtly harm them and to prevent their participation. When ableism is so clearly directed in a harmful manner, it is destructive, ugly, and perhaps illegal. A whole lot of other words can be used.
The Sotomayor article also gave me this thought: The progressive figures know that diabetes does not affect the Chief Justice's role. They hope her impairment helps remove her from the court, hoping that others buy into this nonsense. To me, this is extreme ableism and goes beyond discrimination. It's using a person's disability to obviously and overtly harm them and to prevent their participation. When ableism is so clearly directed in a harmful manner, it is destructive, ugly, and perhaps illegal. A whole lot of other words can be used.