GB News wants to shoot the disabled and won't apologise.

Wibbles
Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,663 Championing
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/gb-news-says-it-has-nothing-to-apologise-for-after-guest-suggests-starving-disabled-benefit-claimants/

Lewis Schaffer, a GB News guest suggested that the solution to the welfare budget problem was to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits by starving, or even shooting, them.

GB News originally refused to comment, but it eventually produced the following statement for Disability News Service (DNS): “Having reviewed the comment, which is clearly comedic, GB News does not consider there is anything that requires an apology, or further explanation.”

Comments

  • Janife
    Janife Community Member Posts: 5 Connected

    "Schaffer" …….. 🤨

  • Janife
    Janife Community Member Posts: 5 Connected

    Starving and shooting people - always hilarious. Just ask the Gazans how much they've been laughing lately.

  • amazingblazing628
    amazingblazing628 Community Member Posts: 112 Contributor

    Hi to all,

    How can Schaffer be so disrespectfully to disabled people how would he like it if someone said that to himself.

    Amazing blazing62

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,663 Championing

    How can GB news not even acknowledge that a guest has made a big mistake ?

  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 984 Connected

    A comical response is only funny when "both sides are laughing." Wording is changing all the time, so classing everyone under the "Disabled Badge" doesn't work either; we are neurodiversant people. Unlike Schaffer, who's other brain cell must have been somewhere else…. now that's funny.

  • jsjswood
    jsjswood Community Member Posts: 22 Contributor

    If only schaffer was disabled then someone could shoot him, so we don't have to listen to his drivel.

  • charlie72
    charlie72 Community Member Posts: 259 Pioneering

    His comments were about as funny as herpes.

  • JD_INCINERATOR
    JD_INCINERATOR Community Member Posts: 72 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1045355#Comment_1045355

    If it's a joke it's a joke don't be offended just ignore it.

  • VIRGOSTAR
    VIRGOSTAR Community Member Posts: 54 Connected

    Deeply worrying but I'm afraid it's how global demographic views are shifting towards care of the disabled after societal modelling via media, fake or MPs that have lied and etc has now embedded itself like a snake in the garden bringing bad things into existence.

    I have watched in despair and frustration at the machine that has been set in motion leading to open and disgusting comments.

    I, myself, have been referred to as a 'useless eater' once purely because of my predicament and by someone who didn't know me but I can tell you I've contributed more in many ways to other lives without asking for money or anything back unlike the person who makes such comments who is not fit to clean the shoes of any disabled person because it is they who drag humanity down into a dark place not those they attack.

    Let us not forget it was the disabled the Nazis came for back then and many elements of our alleged civilised society already show signs of doing so again in fact it's openly being shown to us as comments like his demonstrate.

    Sadly others may well go and do what he said or at the least see it as a sign to further enable more hate crime and as someone who has received a lot of it it's not a nice place to live on top of other struggles.

    I'm being polite btw and diplomatic in my words and I'm also Jewish by ancestral blood.

  • HappyDays62
    HappyDays62 Community Member Posts: 149 Empowering

    GB News, home of the ableists, fascists, narcissists, misogynists, etc., etc…🙄

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Community Member Posts: 446 Trailblazing

    Any watching GB spews frankly only has themselves to blame.

    🙄

  • Fuzzy200
    Fuzzy200 Community Member Posts: 53 Empowering

    Unfortunately articles like this from the Daily Fail don't help.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14876857/amp/disability-benefit-social-media-tutorials-claimants-cheat-system.html?ico=amp_articleRelated_with_images

  • quinceorange24
    quinceorange24 Scope Member Posts: 50 Contributor

    Hi everyone unfortunately some people a problem us the disabled for reasons best known to their selves and they should keep what think to their selves and not say anything disrespectful.

    I hope everybody is alright, don't take any notice of people like whoever he is that was on GB News.

  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Community Member Posts: 408 Championing

    I am amazed GB news still exists. It bounces around on regulations so much it's a bit of a miracle.

    Complain to OFCOM. Enough complaints and they'll have to apologise.

    This is, unfortunately, the real cost of the benefit bill public fracass. If the govt had just said, we're going to consult WITH DISABLED PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS and THEN look at the benefit bill, absolutely none of this would have happened. But because they backed down, it went public, now it's disabled people's fault that other people will pay "more tax".

    The misinformation and drama does as much harm as the political fiasco. I noticed that the day after the vote, 99% of the press was on why Reeves cried and what was going on with her. Not on the bill or disabled people.

    Of course it's not a joke. It's actually frightening because of how much it echoes the eugenics of the 1930s in Germany. Starving and shooting - two key features of concentration camps.

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