Hate crime towards disabilities
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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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?
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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.
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I had that one shouted at me by a driver of a passing van while I was going up the street with my daughter.
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I get this one, the worse my mobility has become the more it seems to happen. I'm sorry your daughter was subjected to it too.
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You have summed this up perfectly. I wonder if it is a generational thing? I don’t like it and have answered back on occasion, but I do not let it spoil my day or waste time dwelling on it.
Of course, that might be different if it were an ongoing, regular issue with the same person. But I try not to let the opinions of others ruin my day or take up any more of my energy.
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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 :(
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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.
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And if certain Political entities get their way, things will get a LOT worse for us disabled folk.
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