Hate crime towards disabilities

Middleton
Middleton Community Member Posts: 268 Empowering
in Everyday life

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong discussion, but wasn't sure where to post it.

It's concerning a neighbour who said to my disabled friend.." Go and find a job instead of sitting down all day"

Apparently, the local police informed her that they will do nothing about this.

I have heard recently that they are relaxing the reporting of hate crimes. It seems that this has already started..

Is it worth my friend calling citizens advice?

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  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,259 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/144574/hate-crime-towards-disabilities

    I've had this and a lot worse both in person and online from right wing grifters who post on social media when they're allegedly "at work", can these people even spell blatant hypocrisy?

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,259 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1108141#Comment_1108141

    I once got called a "deaf C U Next Tuesday" (Connect the first letters) at work, the guy thought I didn't hear him and I did, he's lucky I didn't flatten him.

  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,964 Cerebral Palsy Network
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1108141#Comment_1108141

    I had that one shouted at me by a driver of a passing van while I was going up the street with my daughter.

  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Community Member Posts: 408 Championing

    Maybe this will come across as cynicism - I hope not - but as an autistic person, I'm seeing my disability platformed and invalidated in the media, and by government ministers on a pretty much daily basis at the moment. It makes me feel like disability discrimination is now open season, and thus nobody's going to do much about it even when it happens in the street.

    On a more specific basis, I'm sorry that anyone has had to deal with direct and personal comments like that. My job means I encounter a lot of vulnerable people, and people make generalised assumptions about many of them (sometimes specifically, sometimes collectively) in wider life which I know from my direct experience with them are not true. But I've learned that all I can do is support the customer in front of me in that moment. I'm not able to control the media, social media, government policy, or other people's ignorance. As much as it makes my blood boil to see or hear it around me. And as fed up as I am seeing everyone else become 'experts' on things they've literally never encountered except on google.

    Our current world is fueled by ignorance and the power of dividing people into "us" and "them". Sadly :(

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 4,935 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/144574/hate-crime-towards-disabilities

    If this were me I would ignore such comments because reporting them will probably make matters much worse and tensions are likely to escalate and become really unpleasant.

    The police have decided the comment made isn't hate crime.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,259 Connected

    And if certain Political entities get their way, things will get a LOT worse for us disabled folk.

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