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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
(www.propublica.org)
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Even the Nazis, the literal ones from the 30s and 40s, were not as inhumane as we treat our homeless, chronically ill, an disabled.
At least they would outright murder them while here they end up dead behind dumpsters or just outside hospitals. I did a lot of volunteer and community work until I had reached my limit of seeing how fucked up things are at the bottom.
I really wouldn't be downplaying how the Nazis treated disabled people. They were literally experimented on, tortured while still alive in some of the most horrific ways until they died. Disabled children were taken from their parents (sometimes willing, sometimes not) and abused until they died. Some of the parents would realize that the situation was not what they thought it was and try to get their child back but couldn't. There are letters from teenagers writing to their parents - "I am going to die here" (in the institution) because the parents weren't able to get them out. Those kids did die. And we don't even have the full scope of numbers because documentation was destroyed and deaths were simply labelled as pneumonia when there were clearly other things at play.
I don't think comparison is helpful here. Disabled people have ALWAYS been treated like shit by a large amount of society and people in power. Some of it has changed over time, going back way further than the 1930/40s, some of it has improved but not as much as people would like to think sadly.
There's still a lot of deep seated ableism that permeates through society which is why any progress in the way disabled people are spoken to, about and how we're treated in general, is so incredibly painstakingly slow and often feels like one half step forward, whoaaa that's a bit too much, shuffle back 3 steps!