ooh I never knew the name for this. There’s a Korean American chef, I think from LA and I think it was an episode of Bourdain? Parts unknown maybe? Who talked about this and it stuck with me. Super interesting conversation, I should dig up who and what that was exactly.
ETA unless I’m combining two mental things, I think it was Roy Choi on parts unknown.
It came up in the book I’m reading, which has a Korean author and main character. Super interesting. I love to read about those “untranslatable” concepts.
ETA: the first thing I thought of was the way we talk about generational racial trauma in the US—not entirely the same but it felt like it overlapped.
I really need to watch more Bourdain.
I read this news in several sources. I find it really interesting that none of the sources I could find claim ableism actually happened. They all say things like the students feel like they were discriminated against. This is super common with ableism IMO.
They not only weren’t included in the programs, they literally didn’t even have diplomas for them. The reason the school gave? They forgot.
This is also super common sidestepping that happens towards people with disabilities all the time. I’ve experienced it a lot. It wasn’t ableism! They just literally forgot these disabled students existed. It’s not ableism! It’s just too much work to give someone an accommodation. It’s not ableism! It’s just inconvenient to xyz. It’s not ableism! It just wouldn’t be fair to other employees/students. It’s not ableism! It’s just too expensive to xyz. It’s not ableism! We just aren’t set up to do xys. It’s not ableism! That’s just impossible. It’s not ableism! It’s just ignorance, curiosity, fear, discomfort. That, quite literally, is ableism.
If covid proved anything it’s that able people are 100% capable of carrying out massive, seismic, rapid change in accommodations on an unimaginable scale. As long as they themselves are at risk. If it’s not about them…it’s so easy to just forget.
“It wasn’t that thing that it definitely was because I don’t identify with that label. I don’t think of myself that way therefore it cannot be that way” 
I can’t remember where I heard it, but once I heard someone say that you can’t actually call yourself an ally. The people in the group you’re referring to decide if you are or not. I really like that because so often the worst ableism comes from schools, paraprofessionals, medical professionals, special education providers, parents, etc. But I think almost a…minority proximity syndrome (if I can coin that term) thing develops with a lot of people in those jobs. Where like…they feel like they can speak on behalf of that experience. And they are that thing. So therefor they can’t actually have any culpability or growing to do? BECAUSE THEY TOTALLY GET IT AND SHARE THE BURDEN.
It’s a weird thing, I’ve noticed it with white teachers who work in nonwhite majority inner city schools too. And social workers who work with poor people but live a middle class life themselves. Like they want credit for being adjacent to struggle, or something. And then start to feel like they have that experience, but are actually always in a position of power over the people they’re interacting with. And they’re unaware of that, and how that may change the way those people interact with them, and how honest they are with them, etc. IDK. Just rumblings from my brain chunks.
Not that you need more examples, but the immune-compromised son of a friend was supposed to go on a field trip with the rest of his 8th grade Spanish class to a restaurant. Except they did indoor seating. Instead of having one table of kids outside or all the kids outside they just had him … stay at school. Graduation was also held indoors. Oh and this was at a private school they specifically switched to because his local public school has such low vaccination rates (even prepandemic that school was at like <80% vaccination rate for normal childhood vaccinations) that it was unsafe for him to attend that school.
He’s pissed and hurt and will carry that with him for the rest of his life, all because of the thoughtlessness of the school staff involved.
Yeah when I first started meeting people online who were also disabled as kids…that’s when I realized how widespread it was. One girl I know of (wheelchair user) had to wait every day for kids to volunteer to carry her up the stairs to get into the school. If none volunteered the teacher would make kids do it as a punishment. Sometimes she had to wait over an hour, in snow and rain. She’s in her late 20s so this wasn’t like, in the 1700s or something. The school had a chair lift too, but only one person was certified to turn it on (they said, and weirdly I’ve heard this from more than one person- like schools having a chair lift but it’s off) and that person didn’t come in until 10. It would be unfair to ask them to come early just for her, so she was only allowed to use it to leave. But it was also her responsibility to find that person and ask them to turn it on. Every day. And then thank them.
I am incandescent with rage.
And that’s as someone whose classes were spread across 7 buildings and 2 floors in a high school that had only 1 elevator.
GAHHHHH. That’s too many floors and not nearly enough elevators. 
solidarity.
New life goal dropped.
I hope the manual was written in a passive aggressive way by one co-worker, about another co-worker. “definitely bring hard boiled eggs to work EVERY DAY and for sure peel them at your desk, DAVE.”
It was for resistance efforts during WW2 in occupied countries! Delightful historical context plus some good chuckles- like in an office referring everything to a committee to review, and have these committees never be less than 5 people 
Also lots of arson and a spot of racism, though. So. That’s less goals, lol. But #resist, delightful.
Honestly, a couple of folks found it at my last job and we analyzed a co worker’s behavior and it was shocking how much she managed to derail things by asking if we really had all the info or how we were going to measure success.
And microwave fish for lunch every day. And in the afternoon, make sure your microwave popcorn burns just a little.
My favorite: replace “minimum” with “miximum” so that no one knows whether you meant minimum or maximum. Brilliant!!
First image from the Webb Telescope. This is from a portion of the night sky approximate to you holding a grain of sand out at arm’s length 
For comparison, here’s a shot from Hubble of the same section of sky, rotated so the orientation is roughly the same:
The universe is very pretty 
Wow! What an incredible difference!
