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Disability, abolition, emancipation / Keith Rosenthal

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Writer Keith Rosenthal on his article "Carceral Histories of Disability:An Abolitionist Analysis" for Spectre Journal. https://spectrejournal.com/carceral-histories-of-disability-an-abolitionist-analysis/

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Pours some sugar in my coffee.

0:03.0

Come on, come on.

0:05.0

Pour it on.

0:08.0

Pour it on me.

0:10.0

Very smooth segue there Richard. No, thank you, Richard. This is hell.

0:33.0

Live from the United States where the law is far too often the crime.

0:48.0

This is hell under capitalism, lives are made disposable. The inequality baked into the system

0:58.0

makes it so capitalism depends upon that injustice of inequality to continue, which means capital views many of us as having

1:05.7

surplus lives that are superfluous and frankly unnecessary. But what to do with

1:12.1

those non-conformers who can't seem to assimilate to a life under

1:16.0

capital? What about say the disabled who cannot physically or mentally contribute to capitalism?

1:21.8

Well, first it's important to know that capitalism created the concept of being disabled

1:27.0

and if making you, and it making you, you know, unable to contribute to society.

1:32.0

Before capitalism, people like me had a much better time of it and were seen as contributors to society.

1:38.0

But after capitalism emerged, something needed to be done about the disabled.

1:43.0

So their lives, now deemed to have little value in the market,

1:47.0

were taken from them as they were locked away into institutions

1:50.0

that very much had the appearance of prison.

1:54.0

Eventually, the disabled, who proved they are actually very able,

1:58.0

rose up and through their activism, the disabled achieved

2:02.0

deinstitutionalization. The problem was that

2:05.3

what that meant was the federal government would be shirking their

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