Hassverbrechen wegen Behinderung: „Das ist das Schlimmste, was ich je erlebt habe“
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62087pmydyo
Von Hopeful_Stay_5276
Hassverbrechen wegen Behinderung: „Das ist das Schlimmste, was ich je erlebt habe“
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62087pmydyo
Von Hopeful_Stay_5276
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I use a powerchair, and in the last year, I’ve been asked why my legs don’t work multiple times in public.
A drunk lady got in my face and sang the „they see me rolling“ song.
Ive had children shout „Timmey“ at me a few times
In previous years, I’ve been assaulted on a few occasions due to my disablity, including people trying to sexually assault me in public because they view me as an easy target. It’s disgusting and I genuinly don’t know how the public will react to me when I go out.
Will I be ignored? Will I be assaulted? Will I be mocked?
I’m a large bloke as well, so I can only imagine how much worse it is for female wheelchair users.
I don’t tend to report hate crimes or hate incidents anymore, as the process of pursuing them can be just as traumatic as the incidents. I’m having to get used to being discriminated against regularly by business and service providers; to have members of the public join in the fun, too, is deeply dehumanising and a condemnation of how open our culture is to difference currently.
I have so much to contribute, but I’m judged on a surface level that doesn’t often see beyond mobility equipment and whatever ‚humorous‘ observation it brings to mind.
If the abuse I was receiving was racist or homophobic, society would be up in arms, but ableism is viewed as less important for some reason and has absolutley been left behind as social cause
The amount of times my wife (blind) has had people barge into her while holding her cane or stood in front of her expecting her to move out of her way and get mad at her when she doesn’t.
Labour are directly to blame for this. The way they have been speaking about disabled people is fucking unforgivable.
>He feels that hate crime against disabled people is on the rise, pointing to an increasingly polarised Britain and a toxic narrative based on misconceptions about both disability and the benefit system.
Please try to remember others before you attack the benefits system.
Give it time, could be getting worse, but.
Don’t worry ! Just be happy !
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Used to take a severely (and quite visibly) disabled loved one out, and would see it, especially going into the 2010’s felt like things took a turn for the worse and went backwards socially when the government (and media) put the screws in further on disabled people (along with the unemployed) allegedly being spongers and somehow responsible for the financial crisis shitshow/hardship on the public.
Like they attempted to justify the disgusting behavior because of some poverty porn they watched on television or the story about that one person out of hundreds who popped almost a dozen kids and applied their disdain unilaterally
Doesn’t get any better when you have non visible stuff going on as well and I say that as someone who has worked their entire adult life, because I know and have seen how stuff can happen at the drop of a hat with your health even if you do everything right
I’d wager those figures (being down) were bollocks because if I’m not mistaken they are based off of actual reports, where as in the current climate alot of stuff goes unreported and even then, some are fobbed off when they try. Like the police are quite literally overwhelmed.
I’ve unfortunatly become disabled this year and have realised that I needed to start using aids. I’ve had multiple comments this year from people about me using a stick. So many funny looks. I put my stick down to walk to the toilet in a pub the other day and a complete stranger stopped me and asked me why I wasnt walking with my stick anymore. It makes me feel so uncomfortable. I hate it.
This is what happens when the right fear mongers.
Yes, immigrants are getting the brunt of it right now, but I still see these garbage tabloid rags complaining about how much it costs for this that and the other, all the time.
If there is a real increase, I suspect that social media has had an influence. All those „pranks“ and videos of accidents and misfortunes that are being published for laughs and clicks are likely to have desensitised their viewers.
I feel the usual „low-grade dickhead behavior“ quotient has increased. Usually minor, sometimes major but *persistent*.
And very predictably, it’s queer and disabled people, and migrants who get to take the brunt of it.
I really don’t know how much of it is targeted hate and how much is seeing someone who in their mind is now a legitimate target to harass or throw stuff at because they wanted to do that anyway and *here* is a person society has said it’s ok to attack.
I’ve had to start using a rollator to get out of the house this year because of major dizziness/lightheadedness/fatigue. I’m aware I don’t look like a typical rollator user because I’m young (ish) and don’t walk slowly all the time- it varies.
The amount of strangers asking invasive questions about my medical conditions and giving me weird or sometimes openly hostile looks as I go about my business is… rough. I can hear the narrative in their head about PIP scroungers being angrily fed.
I was stuck in my flat for months before I finally made the decision to buy a rollator. Stigma is what made me wait that long.
The whole making you feel like a scrounger thing is getting worse, I didn’t ask for a really bad head injury it was given to me when i was 16 years old.
I’m now 49yo.
When we allow intolerance towards one group to flourish in society, it’s only a matter of time before intolerance towards anyone who is different from the majority increases. A tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance.
Both the tories and labour have screwed disability. What will never leave my mind is Rachel Reeves literally crying in parliament shortly after being told she couldn’t cut PIP aggressively. They tried to claim it was unrelated, but with a disabilities minister so venal and a tearful chancellor leave me with the perception that for them, attacking disabilities is a personal issue.