@hipsterelectron honestly all you need on the ableism front is to look at how shit accessibility tooling in most of FOSS is
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@inherentlee @hipsterelectron and especially how FOSS enthusiasts and devs react when disabled people complain about this. Most say something along the lines of "well have fun licking Bill Gates's boots" or some shit, as if our community is saying FOSS is bad rather than that FOSS should be made in a way that people can fucking use it. Using the Democrat strategy of deflecting all criticisms with "at least we're not that guy!" Except in this case, "that guy" *has* implemented basic accessibility
@raphaelmorgan @inherentlee i don't recall seeing stallman or the fsf demonstrate it. gnuspeech https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech/ and emacspeak https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ have been developed for quite a while. i am well aware of this tendency for ableism to use free software as an excuse, but unlike stallman's own racism and misogyny, i don't see this as one of the moral failures of the movement at its inception
@raphaelmorgan @inherentlee does stallman go out and defend people against misusing the name of free software this way? of course not! he doesn't feel responsible for anything! but i am under the impression accessibility is something that is seen as pretty core to the movement, along with internationalization through gettext (something proprietary software generally doesn't do)
@raphaelmorgan @inherentlee ableism to my understanding has not been a core failing of free software since its inception and when it's tossed in after misogyny and transphobia and coming before racism i feel it tokenizes ableism in a way that demeans it
