Mr. Beast helped people who wanted help … and that’s a bad thing? Somebody make this make sense. To be completely honest, I am just now getting a chance to read through all of the noise around what sounds like a guy who decided to use his own money to help people who couldn’t see, who wanted help, to see.
Just now, when I did a search to find out how many people he helped and how much it cost, Google (I know, I know) brought up CNN who called this a STUNT. Because you know, people helping people is always a stunt. Or the idjits at TechCrunch called him, ableist because they claim disabilities need no cure.
Now, I spent many years working with people with developmental disabilities and their families and I can tell you firsthand, using this narrative to complain about what Mr. Beast did is just dirty pool. No one is claiming people with disabilities are broken or need to find a cure, they just helped those WHO WANTED HELP.
That’s not ableist.
That’s not a stunt.
MrBeast's blindness video puts systemic ableism on display https://t.co/N258NRdtdf
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) February 10, 2023
Helping people who are blind and want help is not calling them freaks. Nobody said disability is a bad word.
So you’d prefer we don’t help people get life changing surgery they want and they asked for?
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) February 11, 2023
Apparently?
Oh, and I must add if we’re going to play this ridiculous ableism game that having a person with a developmental disability WRITE THIS is pretty damn ableist. It also feels pretty sneaky because if someone pushes back, calls them out, or has anything at all critical to say about this piece, they’re being mean to a person with a disability.
I’m more than happy to call it out – I don’t treat someone differently who has a disability from someone who does not have one because that is true equality.
That is what the real movement was and should be about.
Equality.
I’m not blind – but I am disabled. This is embarrassing. It’s not ableist to help people who have approved or asked for said help. These people are able to see again. MrBeast did a good thing.
— Zelda A. Gabriel (@ZeldaAGabriel) February 11, 2023
It’s so bizarre that there is even a debate to be had here.
Commie takes
— Phil Labonte (@philthatremains) February 11, 2023
Some idiot at TechCrunch right now: “This is only getting ratio’d because the blind can’t read it.”
— Eeyore News Network (@someguymusing) February 11, 2023
“Systemic ableism.” Now you’re really just making stuff up. Didn’t realize giving people their eyesight back could somehow be construed as a negative but here we are in 2023.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 11, 2023
This might be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. Yes, life would be easier with sight vs without it. This can’t be real. Please tell me it’s some sort of bad joke.
— Will (@Wi11iamWi11) February 11, 2023
Ouch. TechCrunch now fully penetrated as a propaganda outlet? Awful take.
— Robert J Salvador (@RobertJSalvador) February 11, 2023
Pretty awful indeed. And for what? For why? Clicks and taps?
