The modern Left’s full-spectrum devotion to equality gives it a strange relationship to social norms and to health.
www.nationalreview.com
Here are deBoer's further thoughts on the matter that link into, I think, other areas of SJW thinking:
Disability in general is not an identity. No specific disability constitutes an identity. It is unhelpful to look for meaning and identification in the random and unfortunate reality of disability. The urge to seek identity in disability does not stem from the actual disabling elements of any...
freddiedeboer.substack.com
There are 17 theses here. Here is #17:
17. The collapse of the meaning of disability, driven by social media communities and the social climbers among them,
represents the general drift of all culture in the digital era - excuse-making for narcissism and selfishness, a relentless focus on the interests of the individual above and beyond the interests of all, endlessly splitting society into chunks of the righteous minority and the stupid and undeserving majority, the gentrification of communicative spaces towards the interests of the most savvy and nakedly self-centered, the mandated bright-siding that insists that any condition the individual cannot change is therefore good, the rejection of the notion of human tragedy and the unchangeable brokenness of human life, and the injunction against ever suggesting that there are others who suffer more than you do and should not be included in your trite definitions of the shared condition.
This is the stuff of “marginalized” cultures, now. An affluent 17-year-old who has never been involuntarily committed, has never seriously physically harmed themselves or others, who has never had their shoelaces taken at the door of a mental hospital or been doubled over in stomach pain from meds, who knows nothing of the immense human destruction that can be found in any mental institution, taking to TikTok to make yet another list of the ways people with ADHD are better than those without and, in so doing, saying “this is it, look on me, mine is the face of mental illness, I am the face of disability.” That is our future.
DeBoer is not a right-wing reactionary or Republican agent: he's an avowed, old-school Marxist.