A lot of folks have been writing about ableist language and what that means. My semantically obsessed brain starts with the words we as #a11y advocates and pracitioners use. Disabled is a problem. It means "apart" from able. All humans are apart from some "able". In GEnie BBS 1).

The vast majority of Disabled people really prefer the word disabled. So if you’re looking for a consensus on terms you won’t get it trying to remove disabled as the main option.

Again, we need focal points. I'm not looking for consensus. I'm simply pointing out the semantics and lack of logic. Who wants a world full of me? Not me, oh hell no. But conversation from many folks? That's interesting to me as new ideas emerge.

This is timely, I was recently reading a post by @snowded discussing his dislike of false dichotomies, proposing introducing a 3rd statement which creates an irreconcilable state that forces a drastic reconsideration of the underlying qualities that produced it hence trialectic