Use of 'inspiring' in the Black Panther
Schalk argues that while there are words, such as the r-slur, that disability studies scholars and disability rights and justice activists many was to eliminate, 'inspiring' is not inherently ableist rather it is just often used in ableist ways. This means we need to analyze more closely how this language is being used in specific racialized contexts. The Black Panther's coverage of the 504 sit-ins almost always used inspiring in conjunction with another adjective, e.g. powerful or tremendous, while this does not negate the possible ableist implications, it suggests that 'inspiring was used to describe the protest's power, length, and success rather than the fact that the 504 sit-ins were carried out by disabled people. Inspiring was not used to describe any disabled individual rather to describe the protest.
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