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[[Image description: Tweet by Jenna Rice @jenna_niccole reads “why is just making fun of disabled people considered horrible, but ACTUALLY KILLING US is ‘well maybe there was a reason/they’re better off’]]
Getting really fed up with people using Trump mocking a disabled person as a prop for “the worst ever,” yet these people couldn’t care less about tragedies disabled people actually face, like the 2016 Japan massacre of people with disabilities (will we ever even know the names of the victims?,) or the frequent cases here in the US where caregivers kill their disabled children and get sympathy, or history of Aktion T4, or what’s happening in North Korea now, or deaths in the UK over disabled people being declared “fit to work” and this decision killing them, or the horrifying statistics of cops killing disabled citizens (that up to half of people killed by cops in the US are disabled,) or the fact that 43,000 people will die per year if the ACA is repealed and not properly replaced… If you’re going to use disabled people as props in your activism, maybe you should educate yourselves and ACTUALLY include us in your activism.
(For further reading on disability issues and Trump’s administration specifically, here have just a few more links for the road. And most of them are from the campaign. Things have gotten, and can get, worse.)
we are sick of being used as mere props for sympathy
#most the time i see disability discussed on here its usually being used as an addendum to a different issue #like it’s used to add greater weight to your specific cause #but god forbid people talk about disability in general -@pressxtodavid this is really important
desperadore:
ikaricrossinglines:
chronicillnessproblems:
[[Image description: Tweet by Jenna Rice @jenna_niccole reads “why is just making fun of disabled people considered horrible, but ACTUALLY KILLING US is ‘well maybe there was a reason/they’re better off’]]
Getting really fed up with people using Trump mocking a disabled person as a prop for “the worst ever,” yet these people couldn’t care less about tragedies disabled people actually face, like the 2016 Japan massacre of people with disabilities (will we ever even know the names of the victims?,) or the frequent cases here in the US where caregivers kill their disabled children and get sympathy, or history of Aktion T4, or what’s happening in North Korea now, or deaths in the UK over disabled people being declared “fit to work” and this decision killing them, or the horrifying statistics of cops killing disabled citizens (that up to half of people killed by cops in the US are disabled,) or the fact that 43,000 people will die per year if the ACA is repealed and not properly replaced… If you’re going to use disabled people as props in your activism, maybe you should educate yourselves and ACTUALLY include us in your activism.
(For further reading on disability issues and Trump’s administration specifically, here have just a few more links for the road. And most of them are from the campaign. Things have gotten, and can get, worse.)
we are sick of being used as mere props for sympathy
#most the time i see disability discussed on here its usually being used as an addendum to a different issue #like it’s used to add greater weight to your specific cause #but god forbid people talk about disability in general -@pressxtodavid this is really important