Your perception of our existence is inaccurate.

No, it doesn't. We've seen the ableist toxic positivity you're selling from a thousand snakeoil salesmen before. It ain't new. And it's not enlightening.

She literally read your own health care plan on your official website. It’s not about dislike. It’s about bad policies that will harm her and other disabled people. But you know...there’s always yoga. Engage with Imani. Learn from her, instead of belittling her.

Imani, It’s okay if Marianne isn’t your candidate. But stop making up stuff to smear her. You are ruining your own credibility and the perceptions of journalism... thank you.

This response says so much about how unwilling you are to listen and respond to critiques from those communities who you aim to serve and claim to care about.

Excited for all the context that is gonna make me realize this is good.

You responded to a disabled person's legitimate critiques of your politics by telling them to read more instead of actually trying to figure out how to be more supportive of the community. You had an opportunity here and you completely missed it. Don't do this.

Hmmm...it's so cute that you think disabled people are ridiculing *you* when, in fact, all we're out here doing is highlighting how much of your work ridicules *our* very real experiences.

So, are you saying your published words and written tweets can't be trusted then? If they DON'T actually mean what you rather explicitly said (and were even so kind to repeat a few times)? Bc that'd make you either a self-proclaimed liar OR proud gaslighter. Which do you prefer?

Very rude of Imani to make judgments based solely on the things you have written and said.