389
Anon tries dating apps (sh.itjust.works)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 62 points 6 days ago

"Hellen Keller wasn't real" is an immediate swipe away from a profile. I don't care if they're joking or if they're actually a nut job conspiracy theorist. If the latter, obviously we're not gonna vibe, and if the former, that entire joke/line of thinking is prefaced on ableism and the idea that a deaf and blind woman could not have accomplished what she did, not to mention the erasure of a prominent socialist, suffragist, and activist. I fucking hate that joke.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 63 points 6 days ago

This is the first I've ever heard about it, and I'm so confused

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 20 points 6 days ago

It started as a joke, and now there are actual people who believe that she was either not a real person, or that her accomplishments were faked. People with disabilities are already assumed to be lesser than able bodied people, and this particular trend is stripping away one of the most prominent examples to the contrary. It is also erasing one of the most prominent examples of a famous socialist woman in American history, and a southern American socialist woman at that. Her story is amazing, but more importantly, she is historically significant. She is an example to so many people, and she has been liberal-washed for a century, and now she's being erased entirely. It's disgusting.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Sickening. I had no idea she was being attacked in this way.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 days ago

I guess this is another moon landing flat earth sovereign citizen thing.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A VERY prominent and UNAPOLOGETIC socialist. The way history has defanged her and turned her into a simpleton who learned to speak is an absolute appalling insult to the strong, principled woman she was.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

Exactly! She's one of my favorite historical figures, but when if she wasn't, even if our politics did not align so well, she does not deserve to swept into the dustbin like this, liberal washed and eventually erased entirely. It's disgusting.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

There are absolutely a lot of awful realizations about how inhumanly the world treats people, but the realization that you don't even get to have the legacy of the life you lived? That's maybe the most heinous one.

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
389 points (100.0% liked)

Greentext

8553 readers
389 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS