So now it has been revealed at least 500 Do Not Resuscitate orders were placed on disabled people, many with learning difficulties, without their knowledge or permission from their families.
That is what being cancelled or de - personned really looks like. Not just having a platform to spread rubbish from not offered to you, but being denied, the right to live, because people consider you 'not normal' or less than human.
Calling people 'mongs' and sniggering at things like deformities, amputations etc is not just the thin end of a wedge it is part of a process that normalises a lack of care that dehumanises people. Someones daughter, son, cousin, mum, brother etc. Sorry not sorry if that pisses you off.
WE as a society must do better.
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