Question:

[conuly]

White privilege leads to racism.
Straight privilege leads to homophobia.
Abled privilege leads to ablism or disablism.
Neurotypical privilege (which overlaps, I suppose, with abled privilege but not entirely, I should think) leads to... what now?

(And why did the SATs get rid of analogies? Those're fun!)

Comments

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

I've heard the term 'neurobigotry', but it doesn't really flow as nicely as the others...

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

Genocide.

[conuly]

Okay, yes, but racism and homophobia lead to genocide. What's the intermediate step?

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

But "genocide" sounds so rhetorically dramatic! You meany ou want me to actually think?

[conuly]

Let's be better than those who don't, why don't we.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Depersonalization.

[conuly]

More accurate as a middlestep than genocide, but it's still a bit generic, isn't it? You dehumanize people as a precursor to killing them and taking away their rights, whether you're doing that on the basis of their race, religion, language, or whatever.

[siderea]

Huh. Good question. I don't know there's an extant answer. We may have to make one.

[conuly]

Of course, as soon as I fell asleep I had the idea "neurominded", to sound like narrow-minded, but I suspect the joke will be lost on at least 55% of the population.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I like it!

Sometimes, it leads to ablism, as you noted, but sometimes also just to... darn it, I guess there isn't actually a word for what I'm thinking of. Normatism?

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.

[(Anonymous)]

Neuronormativity?