Do Not Justify Your Hand Over My Mouth.

[dodger_sister]

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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[shirebound]

Thank you for this thoughtful post, my friend.

♥

[dodger_sister]

Thank you. <3 It was hard to write, but it needed to be said.

[ceitfianna]

*hugs* Thank you for writing this as it needs to be said and its awful that it still needs to be said.

[dodger_sister]

Thank you for writing this as it needs to be said

Yes, it took me awhile to formulate the words, but I felt I could not be silent.

and its awful that it still needs to be said.

That's the root of it, isn't it? Eugenics on the disabled was practiced regularly in the last century. The reality that we are not past it yet it horrendous.

[crucis01]

Outstanding.

[dodger_sister]

Thank you. It is hard to be thoughtful or provoking on something that hits so close to home for me, so your support on this article is appreciated.

[lindahoyland]

I'd never even heard about this atrocity. 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.

[dodger_sister]

I'd never even heard about this atrocity.

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

[matchboximpala]

That is a tragedy, and one I admit I hadn't heard about until I read your post. Not surprising, I guess, since as you say it cycled out of the news pretty quickly. I hate to think of the people in that facility being so vulnerable. I guess it could (and does) happen anywhere, but it seems especially horrible that it happened there.

[dodger_sister]

That is a tragedy, and one I admit I hadn't heard about until I read your post. Not surprising, I guess, since as you say it cycled out of the news pretty quickly.

As I said in the comment above, it is not a provoking enough headline, people don't care when the disabled are killed, it does not bring in readers, it is not shocking enough or a big enough tragedy. So the news cycles onward.

I hate to think of the people in that facility being so vulnerable. I guess it could (and does) happen anywhere, but it seems especially horrible that it happened there.

From the statistics and articles that I've read, disabled people are most likely to be killed by family members, but they are most likely to be abused by professionals in charge of their care at facilities such as this. Because these people are the most vulnerable, as you said. They are in bad enough shape that they cannot care for themselves and bad enough that their families cannot care for them either. That puts them at the mercy and the will of the people caring for them