You can read my post in response to "In Defense of Ableism" here: http://www.stephenkuusisto.com/uncategorized/ableism-pink-men-and-grandfather-clocks

You fail to understand what metaphor is--"Forest Gumpism" is simply a fictive trope, one that's on balance no different than any other red herring. You appear to have considerable contempt for human rights, imagining that you alone can name the gray areas where you think hate speech is just hunky dory.

Mr. Cogburn's post reveals a patent flaw in liberalism: that freedom of thought requires the dispensation to demean and metaphorize historically marginalized people. Since he can't easily dismiss people of color or women (though of course in the clubby circles of privilege I'm sure he has a joke or two up his sleeve) the cripples are to his mind a fair target. Ableism doesn't stop at language, it extends to joblessness, poverty, violence, and social exclusion. When people of apparent judgement and who possess of education suborn ideas to the de facto necessity of offending the vulnerable one simply has to ask what moist rhetorical haystack they've crawled out of.