I think part of the worry is the - probably correct - fear that a lot of those privileges would have to go away for everyone if we actually treated everyone fairly.
And if only some people get to have nice things, then it’s damn well going to be them.
That comes from their having been trained for 40 years to think in terms of a zero-sum game, one in which they’ve been granted what they know deep down are arbitrary advantages: the only things separating them from “the undeserving”. There’s no understanding of gestalts for these linear and sequential thinkers.
They also know deep down – thought they can’t articulate or admit it, – that the post-war party is over for the economy and that the effects of climate change are looming over everyone, including their children.* Ultra-wealthy conservatives are hoarding their money in anticipation of what comes next, while those of more modest means – urged on by the politicians who serve the rich – are trying to hoard their skin and gender privilege.
[* I don’t think it’s a co-incidence this dickhead put on this performance with his kids present]
Way to miss the point of @MalevolentPixy’s comment. That’s not the argument at all. It’s that plenty of people here are using the excuse of this guy’s misuse of the ADA to dismiss the experiences of disabled people.
You too, seem to be missing @MalevolentPixy’s larger point - it’s not the ADA means some people don’t have to wear masks. This guy is abusing the ADA to flout TJs policies, and in the process putting others in danger. Most people who claim some sort of thing, publicly and then posting it online for all to see, are not, in fact, disabled, except in their lack of empathy.
Hey Vern, have you heard about them gooooooooood chocolate clusters in aisle 3?
I’ve two decades of being with my daughter, kind of used to how people respond to a person with a disability, so may have missed that point. We of course don’t know if he has a disability. Don’t much care, as he’s an asshole and a rules lawyer first, whatever else he is. If my daughter were potentially to cause a mass casualty incident, or even just made one person very sick, it’d be wrong and her autism diagnosis wouldn’t really enter into it as justification for having done so. Given altered immune profile that some people with autism have, I’ve been concerned that if she gets sick, she may be one of the outliers for her age and may get the very bad kind of covid, and might not recover, and I might not even be able to be in the room with her. So, actually think about her disability, and those with similar problems, a lot. I know that when you know one person with autism, you know one person with autism, and that outside that diagnosis, there’s a very large world of people with an incredibly complex range of disabilities. I think many of us can keep in mind that there’s a lot of people in the world with seen and unseen disabilities, that are having harder times than most (difficulties getting to doctors, difficulties getting meds, less money, support systems on the fritz etc., even the few social events available are now virtual or cancelled ) and it’d be good if the world were kinder to them as well as the basic point that this gentleman is an asshole at the same time.
Again @MalevolentPixy’s point was not defending this guy and his bad behavior. She was pointing out how others here are using his bad behavior and claims about being disable to talk down about disabled people. She’s noting that there are lots of people here NOT being kind to people with disabilities and using this guy’s bad behavior as an excuse to do so. 
Too right.
I have one friend who has an exemption certificate, not for disability but because her four year old daughter, is deaf, so her mother wears a face shield so her daughter can lip read. She has to carry the certificate with her all the time.
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