Capacitismo
Estou há um tempo tentando encontrar a melhor tradução para o termo em inglês “ableism”, que significa discriminação contra pessoas com deficiência. E por deficiência entendam física ou mental (inclusive transtornos), síndromes e determinadas doenças. Há preconceitos com tudo. E pessoas que não têm deficiência alguma se consideram “normais”, “capazes”, como se as com deficiência não fossem seres humanos ou tivessem os mesmos direitos. Ou seja, quando a nossa visão de mundo parte deste ponto, somos “ableists”.
Mas quem não fala inglês e/ou não faz a menor ideia do que isso significa não tem acesso direto a essa informação. E é um assunto que precisa de atenção sempre, pois é um preconceito estrutural.
Então depois de um bocado de pesquisa, percebi que existe uma tradução de “ableism” e “ableist” para o espanhol. Pesquisando um pouco mais, encontrei uma portuguesa que escreveu uma dissertação sobre isso e ela usa a mesma tradução: capacitismo e capacitista.
O nome dela é Ana Maria Baila Albergaria Pereira e a dissertação esta disponível em pdf aqui. O trecho em que explica o porquê de ter escolhido esses termos é este:
Que seja do meu conhecimento, este não teve até à data tradução para Português. Ele é no entanto absolutamente fundamental para abordar a questão da opressão sofrida pelas pessoas com deficiência, tal como os termos sexismo, racismo ou homofobia em outros contextos de opressão. Os termos “ableism” e “disablism” são de significado idêntico e referem-se a comportamentos discriminatórios, opressivos ou abusivos originados pela crença de que as pessoas com deficiências são inferiores a outras. Proponho por isso aqui a tradução portuguesa destes termos por “capacitismo” e “capacitista”, a discriminação com base na deficiência e a tirania das pessoas que se julgam capazes. Estes termos referem-se tanto à discriminação sofrida pelas pessoas com deficiência de forma ativa (por exemplo, através de insultos e considerações negativas ou arquitetura não acessível), como de forma passiva (por exemplo, quando se tem um discurso sobre as pessoas com deficiência que as considera merecedoras de pena e caridade, em vez de as ver como pessoas de plenos direitos). Este termo é fundamental em qualquer discussão da deficiência que parta do ponto de vista emancipatório de que as pessoas com deficiência são socialmente oprimidas […].
É exatamente isso. Só lembrando, de novo, que os termos não se referem somente à discriminação contra pessoas com deficiência física. Se chamamos de burra uma pessoa que tem dificuldade de aprendizagem, somos capacitistas. Se rimos de alguém com disfunção na fala, somos capacitistas. Se consideramos “retardado” um xingamento, é por puro capacitismo.
Muita atenção com nossas atitudes. Esse tipo de pensamento precisa mudar.
Never say these things to someone dealing with these
- Anxiety: Just calm down, everything will be fine. There is nothing to be worried about. Stop freaking out all the time.
- Depression: Stop being sad all the time. People out there have it worse off than you. Cheer up nothing is wrong.
- Sexual Orientation: It's just a phase. How can you know you are____ unless you had sexual experience.
- Bipolar: It's just mood swings, everyone has them.
- Self harm: Stop seeking attention. Stop trying to kill yourself.
- Eating disorders: Just eat. Stop being so picky.
- Abuse: Report who hurt you.
- Suicide: Stop being so cowardly.
- Sexual assault: You shouldn't have dressed like that. We were drunk, but you still said yes. You never outright said no.
- Multiple Personality Disorder: You are making it up. There is no such thing. They are just your imaginary friends.
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: It happened in the past, stop obsessing over it. Get over it.
- Please never say any of these things to someone who deals with these isues. If you hear someone say something like this to you or someone else, please say something.
I feel the same why when someone make a
“Jamaican=smoking weed” joke
don’t insult your kids, it’s damaging and ruins their self esteem
don’t insult your kids, it’s damaging and ruins their self esteem
don’t insult your kids, it’s damaging and ruins their self esteem and makes you a shitty person
Shamsia Hassani - An Afghan Street Artist
“If you have an exhibition, most uneducated people won’t even know about it. But if you have art like graffiti in the street, everyone can see that … If we can do graffiti all over the city, there will be nobody who doesn’t know about art.”
Afghan street artist Shamsia, 24, paints on the street walls in Kabul, Afghanistan. The young artist says she hopes her public art can have a positive effect in Afghanistan. A contemporary art painter, she took to graffiti easily despite the restrictions imposed by her gender.
this girl is so cool
And I love her explanation of why she prefers street art.
The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.
Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”
Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.
It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.
Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”
The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.
Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.
Contrary to many beliefs, you don’t actually need a fucking life story reason to get a tattoo.
