When a rigged system silences voices
I agree. I know Amazon has the “right” to do this, but their market share is such that it amounts to oppression.
Visiting the lovely peeps on my blogroll today, I came across a particular post that spawned a tangential thought-stream. What follows is indeed my own thought stream, concerning a topic about which I know little, because I haven’t had the energy to go full-on activist in recent months. But I’ll share with you those thoughts that did come.
I originally decided that I wasn’t going to name names, but I ultimately decided that I would.
A little background: The post that seeded these thoughts was an ActuallyAutistic review (excellent read!) of the infamous book “To Siri With Love” (by Judith Newman), written by Elizabeth Roderick (whose blog is certainly worth a follow!).
And, in my own Aspergian/autistic systemizing fashion, I got to thinking about Elizabeth’s words and how aspects of The System are…well, systematically dampening my own Aspergian/autistic spirits by repeating the anti-AS drivel that seems to spout from so…
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