5:35pm July 5, 2014

Examples of scary Ableism

bittersnurr:

Women with disabilities twice as likely to be abused, women who are institutionalized are 10x more likely.

You can be easily forceably hospitalized for mental illness, (even if you aren’t mentally ill), They can also do it if they don’t agree with your diagnosis and force you off your medicine.

Politicians publicly express opinions similar to nazi germany

That isn’t godwins law because it actually was a thing that happened.

You can also be forcibly sterilized

disabled people comprise the world’s largest and poorest minority group and are trapped into poverty by the system.

You can totally kill your disabled kid and get away with it.

So will the police.

These examples were things i thought of off the top of my head and googled. Feel free to shove these into google and see all the other articles on it if you don’t like the sources.

These again, were things i thought of off the top of my head. Feel free to add to it and I’ll put it in the post.

The World Report on Disability, released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank in September 2011, documents that people with disabilities are more likely to be excluded from education, employment opportunities, basic health care, and so forth. WHO and the World Bank are both about as official as you can get for sources of information.

Also browse through the many links you will find at http://gdrl.org for many many more examples and publications and reports and studies on the situation of people with disabilities around the world.

For more anecdotal information, you can read more about ableism (known as “disableism” in the UK) in the words of people with many different disabilities via the posts collected in the 2013 edition of the annual “Blogging Against Disableism Day” (BADD) event: http://blobolobolob.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2013.html. And you can also browse posts contributed for past BADD events in these archives: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Each year sees more than 100 people blogging on the topic from more than 100 different perspectives. And although there are some repeat contributors, there are also new writers each year as well.