How do we create change when such change can be so quickly and easily problematized? In his book, The Rhetoric of Reaction, Albert O. Hirschman suggests that there are three specific ways that people defuse efforts to create change: 1. The futility thesis holds that nothing we do can have much positive impact at all. 2. The perversity thesis suggests that anything we do to help also creates harm. 3. The jeopardy thesis argues that any change we make will likely endanger something else, something already established, something much more important.

— Academic Ableism by Jay T Dolmage