Do Not Justify Your Hand Over My Mouth.
So, I just posted a thing over on my disabilities blog about the recent stabbings in Japan. It's been going around the spoonie community, various articles, and I've been wanting to say something, but it's so hard to formulate words about something like that. On the one hand, it felt so obscure and far away from myself, given that it happened in
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There was very little news coverage of it and those that did just featured one piece and moved on. It's not 'provoking' enough of a headline because people don't care when disabled people are killed. It doesn't bring in the readers. Which is the sad statement on our (the disabled) value as human beings.
Why are disabled people's lives valued so little? Here there are many cases of very sick and disabled people told they are fit to work then left to starve.
We discussed this and I sill can't believe that this is even happening in this day and age, except for of course how I can believe it, because this is the state of the disabled's lives. That my sister - a well educated, news watching person - had no idea that this was a thing that was happening in England, let alone had be going on for as long as it has, speaks volumes. How one of my best friends in the whole world has been declared fit-to-work and how her parents are scrapping by to try to keep her alive while she appeals (which will take what? 2 years?).
Most people would never kill us outright the way this murderer did, but they ignore us and sweep us aside and that is violence in and of itself.
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