Not done being cross about the latest outbreak of this, so: no, nobody gets to write off accessibility complaints with "Well Actually, some of the staff are disabled, your argument is invalid!"

If you understand what an organising umbrella is, if you understand the way in which a hypothetical "Well Actually, we can't be transphobic, we have cis gays :)" wouldn't fly as a functioning argument, here's the news for you: disability, as an umbrella identity, is probably the most heterogenous one to exist.

"My pals at Cohost have neurodivergents on the team, ergo complaints from Blind people are bad faith—" do you really want to keep smugly doing that every this comes back up, do you really


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in reply to @caffeinatedOtter's post:

Cohost is well-served by having run a closed beta which, as they're perfectly open about, consisted 100% of their hand-picked friends and family.

At this point, that forms a loud, dense, evangelical forcefield against critique, and it's one of the things that means I can't straightforwardly recommend this place to people not already here who ask "so where are you posting that mech pilot stuff"