Yes, this is the New York Post, standing up for that guy.

Disabled-rights advocates are going after the star for playing a blind man in a new film, when he’s not actually blind.

“Blind” tells of a writer who loses his wife and his sight in a car accident, then falls in love with a married socialite whose plea deal forces her to read to him.

The professional complainers at the Ruderman Family Foundation charge that having a sighted actor play the lead is “crip-face,” akin to blackface.

“Alec Baldwin in ‘Blind’ is just the latest example of treating disability as a costume,” says Jay Ruderman, the foundation’s president. “We no longer find it acceptable for white actors to portray black characters. Disability as a costume needs to also become universally unacceptable.”

Bull: “Blackface” carries a lot more baggage than just makeup. In itself, cross-racial casting can be fine if it passes the No. 1 test of stage and screen: Does it work?

Disability is no “costume” if the acting makes it real. Should Jamie Foxx give back his Oscar for “Ray”? Dustin Hoffman for “Rain Man”? Should a movie not get made if no top actor passes the Ruderman test?

Mark this moronic identity-politics demand down with the new “cultural appropriation” taboo as threats to the very essentials of art — the power of empathy and the possibility of transcendence.

Dumb ideology has made for plenty of bad art, but this nonsense is an attack on art itself.